King James Version (KJV)

1 Samuel 19:14

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

Verse in context — 1 Samuel 19

So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

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.

And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.

And Saul sent the messengers [again] to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

And when the messengers were come in, behold, [there was] an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster.

The rise of Israel’s monarchy with Samuel, Saul, and David.