Michal
Gender: Female
Years: -1087 - -1042
Dictionary Text: Rivulet, or who as God?, the younger of Saul’s two daughters by his wife Ahinoam,. “Attracted by the graces of his person and the gallantry of his conduct, she fell in love with David and became his wife”. She showed her affection for him by promoting his escape to Naioth when Saul sought his life. Comp.. See TERAPHIM. After this she did not see David for many years. Meanwhile she was given in marriage to another man, Phalti or Phaltiel of Gallim, but David afterwards formally reclaimed her as his lawful wife. The relation between her and David soon after this was altered. They became alienated from each other. This happened on that memorable day when the ark was brought up in great triumph from its temporary resting-place to the Holy City. In David’s conduct on that occasion she saw nothing but a needless humiliation of the royal dignity. She remained childless, and thus the races of David and Saul were not mixed. In her name again occurs, but the name Merab should probably be here substituted for Michal.
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Verses
- 2 Samuel 6:23: Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.
- 1 Samuel 19:13: And 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.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29: And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
- 1 Samuel 19:12: So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
- 1 Samuel 19:17: And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
- 2 Samuel 3:13: And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
- 1 Samuel 18:27: Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
- 2 Samuel 6:20: Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!
- 1 Samuel 19:11: Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
- 1 Samuel 25:44: But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
- 2 Samuel 3:14: And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
- 2 Samuel 6:21: And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
- 1 Samuel 18:20: And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
- 1 Samuel 18:28: And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
- 2 Samuel 6:16: And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
- 1 Samuel 14:49: Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
