And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain.
Their feet swift to shed blood:
My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:
If the men of my tabernacle have not said: Who will give us of his flesh that we may be filled?
And when Saul heard this he was appeased with the words of Jonathan, and swore: As the Lord liveth he shall not be slain.
And Saul sent officers to seize David: and it was answered that he was sick.
And when the messengers were come in they found an image upon the bed, and a goat's skin at its head.