And when the messengers entered, there was the idol in the bed with the goat hair on its head.
Here is, I. Saul's further design of mischief to David. When David had escaped the javelin, supposing he went straight to his own house, as indeed he did, Saul sent some of his guards after him to lay wait at the door of his house, and to assassinate him in the morning as soon as he stirred out, Sa1 19:11.
Commenting on 1 Samuel 19:11-17
And when the messengers were come in,.... To David's house, and into the room where he was supposed to lie: behold, there was an image in the bed to their great surprise; they expected to see David, but instead of him the teraphim, as in Sa1 19:13; if they had been in the room before, and thought they had seen David in the bed, they...
1Sa 19:15-17 But when Saul sent the messengers again to see David, and that with the command, “Bring him up to me in the bed,” and when they only found the teraphim in the bed, and Saul charged Michal with this act of deceit, she replied, “He (David) said to me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?” - “Behold, teraphim were (laid) in...
Commenting on 1 Samuel 19:15-17