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14 When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, ‘He is sick.’ 15 Then Saul sent the messengers to see David for themselves. He said, ‘Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.’ 16 When the messengers came in, the idol[a] was in the bed, with the covering[b] of goats’ hair on its head.

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  1. 1 Samuel 19:16 Heb the teraphim
  2. 1 Samuel 19:16 Meaning of Heb uncertain

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