And the war began again, and David went out, and fought against the Philistines, and defeated them with a great slaughter, and they fled from his face. 9And the evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul; and he sat in his house, and held a spear in his hand: and David played with his hand. 10And Saul endeavoured to nail David to the wall with his spear. And David slipt away out of the presence of Saul: and the spear missed him, and was fastened in the wall, and David fled, and escaped that night. 11Saul therefore sent his guards to David's house to watch him, that he might be killed in the morning. And when Michol, David's wife, had told him this, saying: Unless thou save thyself this night, to morrow thou wilt die: 12She let him down through a window. And he went and fled away, and escaped. 13And Michol took an image, and laid it on the bed, and put a goat's skin, with the hair at the head of it, and covered it with clothes. 14And Saul sent officers to seize David; and it was answered that he was sick. 15And again Saul sent to see David, saying: Bring him to me in the bed, that he may be slain. 16And when the messengers were come in, they found an image upon the bed, and a goat skin at his head. 17And Saul said to Michol: Why hast thou deceived me so, and let my enemy go and flee away? And Michol answered Saul: Because he said to me: Let me go, or else I will kill thee.