Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThen Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed a cushion of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with a garment to make it look like David.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GMikhal then took the terafim and laid it on the bed, placed a net of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with a garment.
KJV
King James VersionAnd Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThen Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
Footnotes
The *terafim* (household figurines or ancestral images) appear throughout the Hebrew scriptures associated with divination and false worship (cf. Gen. 31:19; Judg. 17–18; Zech. 10:2), yet the text here presents Mikhal's possession of one without editorial judgement — suggesting these objects were part of domestic life in this period in ways that sit uneasily with later orthodoxy. That the king's own daughter harbours a *terafim* is a quiet irony the narrator leaves unremarked. The word *kabir* for the 'net/pillow' of goats' hair is a *hapax legomenon* — it appears nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible — making its precise meaning uncertain. FOG preserves *terafim* untranslated; FOG Message renders it 'household idol' to signal the theological friction to modern readers.
