The deception is discovered

15Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I may put him to death.”

16When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the quilt of goats’ hair at its head.

17Then Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?” And Michal said to Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”