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Bible in Basic English

Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it.

New American Standard Bible

Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

King James Version

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

Holman Bible

Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

International Standard Version

Then Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed with a cover of goat hair placed at its head. Then she covered it with clothes.

A Conservative Version

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at the head of it, and covered it with the clothes.

American Standard Version

And Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats hair at the head thereof, and covered it with the clothes.

Amplified

And Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.

Darby Translation

And Michal took the image, and laid it in the bed, and put the net of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the coverlet.

Julia Smith Translation

And Michal will take a teraphim and put into the bed, and put a braiding of goat's hair at its head, and will cover with a garment

King James 2000

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his head, and covered it with a cloth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Then Michal took the household god and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat's hair at its head and covered [it] with the clothes.

Modern King James verseion

And Michal took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with a cloth.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And then she took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed with goat's hair under the head of it, and covered it with a cloth.

NET Bible

Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat's hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.

New Heart English Bible

Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

The Emphasized Bible

And Michal took the household god, and put it in the bed, and, a fly-net of goats-hair, put she at its head, - and covered it with the clothes.

Webster

And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goat's hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

World English Bible

Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

Youngs Literal Translation

and Michal taketh the teraphim, and layeth on the bed, and the mattress of goats' hair she hath put for his pillows, and covereth with a garment.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Michal
מיכל 
Miykal 
Usage: 18

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

an image
תּרפים 
T@raphiym 
Usage: 15

and laid
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

it in the bed
מטּה 
Mittah 
Usage: 29

and put
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

a pillow
כּביר 
K@biyr 
Usage: 2

of goats'
עז 
`ez 
goat, kid , kid, he, kids
Usage: 73

מראשׁה 
M@ra'ashah 
Usage: 9

and covered
כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

Context Readings

David Has To Flee Again

12 So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away. 13 Then Michal took the image and put it in the bed, with a cushion of goat's hair at its head, and she put clothing over it. 14 And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.



Cross References

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

Judges 18:14

Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.

Judges 18:17

Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the land, went in and took the pictured image and the ephod and the family gods and the metal image; and the priest was by the doorway with the six hundred armed men.

Judges 17:5

And the man Micah had a house of gods; and he made an ephod and family gods and put one of his sons in the position of priest.

Hosea 3:4

For the children of Israel will for a long time be without king and without ruler, without offerings and without pillars, and without ephod or images.

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