#Michal #DaughterofSaul #1Samuel18 #1Samuel19 #2Samuel3 #2Samuel6
Embedded within the story of David, Israel’s most beloved king, and of whom the Lord said was a man after God’s own heart, is the tragic story of Michal, a Benjamite princess and daughter of king Saul.
Her story begins in Late Bronze Age Canaan. The twelve tribes of Israel were still in the throes of coalescing into a kingdom, beleaguered by battle after battle with the powerful Philistines, until representatives from across the tribes came to the prophet Samuel and insisted a king be found to lead them to victory.
So, Saul, the tallest, handsomest, and best-loved wealthy young son of a Benjamite family was crowned.
“When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side—against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines; wherever he turned he routed them. He did valiantly, and struck down the Amalekites, and rescued Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.”
1 Samuel 14:47-48 (NRSV)
He was a success! But the war with Philistia waged wearily on, until finally Goliath came forward with his famous challenge,
In response, Saul produced a challenge of his own, saying
“The king will greatly enrich the man who kills him, and will give him his daughter and make his family free in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:25 (NRSV)
David took up that challenge, but not for wealth nor the hand of a princess. Rather, he fought for the honor of God’s name, in the might of God’s divine power. And all Israel could not help but fall in love with this young, handsome, fiery shepherd, musician, and courageous warrior. Including, it seems, Saul’s youngest daughter, Michal.
In Michal’s story we meet a young women in love, who soon becomes courage itself in her quick-witted rescue of her husband. But as the years go by, she becomes an abandoned wife given to another man, then a political pawn and finally the outraged and rejected queen.
Where was God in all this? Had God rejected Saul’s family on Saul’s behalf? Or is there a whisper of hope in an otherwise bleak tale of objectification and abuse?
I A Princess in Love, I Samuel 18:17-30
II A Parting in Haste, I Samuel 19:8-17, 25:39-44
III A Political Pawn, 2 Samuel 3:12-16
IV No Prospect of Honor, 2 Samuel 6:11-23
Each video is designed to offer background scholarship on the topic, including setting, culture, original language, and archaeology, as well as a theological study.
The “Broken, Searching, Trusted, Powerful” series is a companion to the book, available on Amazon, and published by Wipf and Stock.
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Once again, you have done 👍 excellent and exceptional message and teaching of the daughter of Saul, King of Israel. Isn't in the book of the Mosaic Law that the sin or sins of the father is the sin or sins of the children? My mom, when I was growing up, if a man loves his wife, he will love his children. I sometimes applied that concept to Michal. I felt that David married her for convenience, not 🚭🚫 for love. Michal was faithful to him, but he wasn't faithful to her, Even when he secretly saw Jonathan, his brother, he could inquire about Michal and kept abreast of her welfare, kept abreast of his biological father and family members to protect and send his wife to him if he loved 😍❤️ her… but instead, he absolutely abandoned and rejected her. I 🤔💬 thought that Michal was in her father's palace when Michal and David were married, but I stand corrected: she was at his (David) estate: no word from him at all cost -nothing. Michal, in a way, was like Abigail's situation when I'm Abigail's husband died, abandoned and alone, but David rescued Abigail and not 🚭🚫 Michal. Could it be that David's heart ❤️ was hardened toward Michal because of King 👑 Saul, who was pursuing him constantly and consistently? And out of injustices to women married Michal to get back 🔙 at David, and indirectly, toward Michal as well? But Michal found love unexpectedly by a man who loved her unconditionally, and was forced to step away from her second marriage to a man for political gain and prestige instead of love 💖. I believe that when Michal saw David contented and worshipping GOD 🙏 to the point of him coming out his kingly clothing, she snapped and despised him, not 🚫🚭 GOD whom David and the people rejoiced of the return of the Ark of the Covenant, but directly at David because she risked everything that she hold dear and lost confronted her like a roaring lion 🦁♌ and devoured her to bitterness and resentment of a man who recently reclaimed her for political convenience: even though David was a man after GOD'S heart, he messed up with Michal, who had loved him once, caused her pain and heartache until the day she closed her eyes 👀 permanently. It's a saying that there is a thin line between love and hatred. I believe that Michal closed her heart to David permanently as he did to her a long time ago. A tragedy to a relationship between a husband and a wife who wanted to be loved and loved, respected and be respected, embraced and be embraced, trusted and be trusted that her second husband had given her, Palti-, but not 🚭🚫 👑 David!
Such an amazing explanation. Thank you so much