![]() Saul knew that Michal loved David, and that she would take his side against her own father. They returned to Saul and told him what Michal had said. They were sceptical, but she outfaced them – she was after all a royal princess and used to commanding her father’s servants. In the muted light of a flickering oil lamp she was able to convince them it was David, hurt in the scuffle and now too weak to move. Of course the soldiers demanded to see him, but Michal stuffed the household teraphim (clay figurines representing the household spirit-guardians) under the bed coverings so that it looked like a human figure. When the soldiers hammered on the door, demanding that she produce David, she confronted them and said that David was ill, upstairs in her bed. She stayed in the house to buy time, to give him a better chance of getting away. In the darkness, David escaped from the city and from Saul. Judging by later events, this may have been the biggest mistake of her life. So Michal got a rope, and perhaps a basket, and lowered him down from an upper window. She urged him to leave the city immediately, but Saul’s soldiers were already outside the house waiting in the darkness, and David would be immediately arrested if he tried to leave by the front door. ![]() Marriage to Saul’s daughter was too good an opportunity for a poor boy to miss.ĭavid and his men obtained the 100 foreskins and presented them to Saul, who was now unable to refuse him Michal’s hand in marriage. Of course David saw through Saul’s ploy, but accepted the challenge anyway. Since the Philistines in questions would understandably be reluctant to part with their foreskins, there was an excellent chance that David would be killed, and Saul would be relieved of his presence. But he set a condition, that David offer a bride price of 100 Philistine foreskins. Saul seemed to be pleased, and offered Michal to David. Significantly, there is never any mention of David returning her love. Her passion must have been apparent to all around her. This decision of Saul’s may have been influenced by the young Michal, who was passionately in love with young David.īecause this is the only time in the whole Bible that a woman is described as loving a man. Saul decided to keep David on side by offering his elder daughter Merab as a wife.īut then Saul changed his mind and gave Merab to someone else. Wall engraving of a Philistine warrior, from Medinet Habu Bible Top Ten, Daily Life, Paintings Daily Life – Prayer – Paintings – Books of the Bible – Bible Paintings.24 And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. 23 And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. 21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. 20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. ![]() 19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah. And he and Samuel went and dwelt in Naioth. 18 ¶ So David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him.
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