1 Samuel 19

"Saul also sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and to kill him in the morning. And Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”  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, put a cover of goats’ hairfor his head, and covered it with clothes...Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this, and sent my enemy away, so that he has escaped?”

And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go! Why should I kill you?’” vv.11-14,17

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This chapter has many attempts at Saul trying to kill David.  In the two of the attempts we see Saul's own son and daughter help David escape; Jonathan, who is like David's best friend, and Michal, who is David's wife.  How horrible it would be to have your own father-in-law hate you or your best friend's dad want you dead (not just out of his life)?!  Interestingly in these verses where we see Michal help David to escape by having him slip out the window and she make a dummy out of an image and goats hair to deceive her father's messengers.  What does David, this righteous man after God's heart, have an image in his house?  The Hebrew word here for image is teraphim which were tablets showing their genealogy which was super important for Israel as that showed your inheritance among their own nation.  Yet it also led a lot to ancestry worship.  We also see Michal lie to her father when asked why she deceived him.  It was Michal's idea for David to escape and her idea to make the dummy.  Caught in the lie she lies again to save herself. Was she now trying to save herself and cause David to continue to be stench in her father's eyes?  Or was this to truly save her life as if she could have been killed by Saul for her deceit to the king?  

Do you think it's ok to lie at times?  What items in your life have become an image of worship that's not necessarily an image of Buddha or something like that?