1 Samuel 19:15

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Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”

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if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’

The wicked plots against the righteous, and gnashes his teeth at him;

“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

And Saul hearkened to the voice of Jonathan; Saul swore, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”