Difference between revisions of "Michal"

<p> '''Mi'chal.''' ''(who is like God?).'' The younger of Saul's two daughters, &nbsp;1 Samuel 14:49, who married David. The price fixed on Michal's hand was no less than the slaughter of a hundred Philistines. David, by a brilliant feat, doubled the tale of victims, and Michal became his wife. [[Shortly]] afterward, she saved David from the assassins, whom her father had sent to take his life. &nbsp;1 Samuel 19:11-17. </p> <p> When the rupture between Saul and David had become open and incurable, she was married to another man, [[Phalti]] or Phaltiel, of Gallim. &nbsp;1 Samuel 25:44. After the death of her father and brothers at Gilboa, David compelled her new husband to surrender Michal to him. &nbsp;2 Samuel 3:13-16. </p> <p> How Michal comported herself in the altered circumstances of David's household, we are not told; but it is plain from the subsequent occurrences, that something had happened to alter the relations of herself and David, for on the day of David's greatest triumph, when he brought the [[Ark]] of '''Jehovah''' to Jerusalem, we are told that, "she despised him in her heart." All intercourse between her and David ceased from that date. &nbsp;2 Samuel 6:20-23. Her name appears, &nbsp;2 Samuel 21:8, as the mother of five of the grandchildren of Saul. </p>

<p> '''Michal''' (''mî'kal'' ). The second daughter of Saul, &nbsp;1 Samuel 14:49, and the wife of David. During David's exile she was married to another, Phalti, or Palti, &nbsp;1 Samuel 25:44; &nbsp;2 Samuel 3:15, with whom she lived for ten years. After the accession of David to the throne she was restored to him, &nbsp;2 Samuel 3:13-14; but an estrangement soon took place between them, and on the occasion of one of the greatest triumphs of David's life—the bringing up of the ark to Jerusalem—it came to an open rupture between them, after which her name does not again occur. &nbsp;2 Samuel 6:23. </p>