Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
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 And Michal causeth David to go down through the window, and he goeth on, and fleeth, and escapeth; 13 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. 14 And Saul sendeth messengers to take David, and she saith, 'He is sick.'

Cross References

Genesis 31:19

And Laban hath gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stealeth the teraphim which her father hath;

Judges 18:14

And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say unto their brethren, 'Have ye known that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and graven image, and molten image? and now, know what ye do.'

Judges 18:17

yea, the five men, those going to traverse the land, go up -- they have come in thither -- they have taken the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image -- and the priest is standing at the opening of the gate, and the six hundred men who are girded with weapons of war --

Judges 17:5

As to the man Micah, he hath a house of gods, and he maketh an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrateth the hand of one of his sons, and he is to him for a priest;

Hosea 3:4

For many days remain do the sons of Israel without a king, and there is no prince, and there is no sacrifice, and there is no standing pillar, and there is no ephod and teraphim.

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