Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
if those of my tent ever said, ‘O that we might be sated with his flesh!’—
The wicked plot against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
When the messengers came in, the idol was in the bed, with the covering of goats’ hair on its head.
Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”