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David and Michal

How David and Michal are linked in Scripture, with every passage where their stories cross.

How they are linked

  • David and Michal were married.

    Michal, Saul's daughter, loved David and married him. She saved his life from her father's men, but years later she despised him when he danced before the ark.

    Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife

    1 Samuel 18:27, King James Version

    So Michal let David down through a window

    1 Samuel 19:12, King James Version

    she despised him in her heart

    2 Samuel 6:16, King James Version

    Where they cross: 1 Samuel 18:20-28

Notes are commentary, checked against the cited verses in a separate review. Quoted words are Scripture.

Every passage, in order

1 Samuel 18:20-28

20And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

21And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain.

22And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law.

23And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

24And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.

25And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired.

27Wherefore 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.

28And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.

1 Samuel 19:12

12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

2 Samuel 6:16

16And 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.

King James Version

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