12 Immediately Miʹchal let David down through the window, so that he could run away and escape.

14 Saul now sent messengers to take David, but she said: “He is sick.”

2 David replied to A·himʹe·lech the priest: “The king instructed me to do something, but he said, ‘Do not let anyone know anything about the mission on which I am sending you and about the instructions I have given you.’ I made an appointment with my young men to meet at a certain place.