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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Reflection - Ahinoam from Jezreel - Woman of the Bible

Source Website: http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm
By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator


Ahinoam, said to come from Jezreel, is King David’s wife and the mother of his eldest son, Amnon. All references to her occur with, or in close literary proximity to Abigail.
PHOTO: Ahinoam, said to come from Jezreel, is King David’s wife and the mother of his eldest son, Amnon. All references to her occur with, or in close literary proximity to Abigail.
Only one other character named Ahinoam appears in the Hebrew Bible (Saul’s wife; 1 Samuel 14:50). Because she is roughly a contemporary of David’s wife, it is possible that “Ahinoam of Jezreel” is Saul’s wife Ahinoam. Citing God’s words (via the prophet Nathan) to David, “I gave you … your master’s wives” (2 Samuel 12:8).
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Who is Ahinoam?  King Saul wife was named Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaatz (1 Samuel 14:50). Is it reasonable that these are two different women with the same very odd name?  Why would a daughter be named the brother of Noam? Given the uniqueness of the name it appears David married Saul’s wife. But Saul is still alive! In the following verse we are told that David married Ahinoam Saul arranges a second marriage for Michal to Palti ben-Laish (1 Samuel 25:43-44).  Was Saul reacting to David’s kidnapping his wife? Does this reflect ‘what is good for the goose is good for the gander’? It basically means what is good for one type is also (or equally) good for another type (even if the two types have differences between them). [What you have done to me I do to you also].
Who is Ahinoam?
PHOTO: Who is Ahinoam?
King Saul wife was named Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaatz (1 Samuel 14:50). The Bible also tells us that when David married Abigail it adds that he also married Ahinoam of Jezreel (1 Samuel 25:43-44). Is it reasonable that these are two different women with the same very odd name? Given the uniqueness of the name it appears David married Saul’s wife.
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When Nathan, the prophet admonishes David for having taken Bathsheba he says in the name of God ‘I gave you your master’s household and your master’s wives into your arms’ (2 Samuel 12:8).  The master is clearly Saul. What does ‘wives’ imply if not that Ahinoam, wife of Saul, became David’s wife? After Saul and Ishbosheth’s deaths David may have taken their concubines but nothing in the text suggests that. The only known concubine of Saul, Rizpah was taken by Abner (2 Samuel 3:7) and David allowed her children (as well as Merab’s) to be killed by the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:8-9). In one of Saul’s angry outbursts against Jonathan he calls him the ‘son of a rebellious woman’ (1 Samuel 20:30). Is Saul referring to his wife who went with David? [10]

 David's retaliation for the Gibeonites included the execution of two of Saul's sons by Rizpah and five of the sons of Merab, Saul's eldest daughter.


PHOTO: During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.” (Now the Gibeonites were not a part of Israel but were survivors of the Amorites; the Israelites had sworn to spare them, but Saul in his zeal for Israel and Judah had tried to annihilate them.) (2 Samuel 21:1-2). 

David's retaliation for the Gibeonites included the execution of two of Saul's sons by Rizpah and five of the sons of Merab, Saul's eldest daughter. The dead were left hung as a public warning for all to see. Rizpah kept a horrendous (horrifying) watch for five months over the bodies of her sons, protecting them from being devoured by wild birds and animals. Her action must have prompt King David to "gathered up the bones of those who had been killed and exposed" and buried them at Zelah with the bones of Saul and Jonathan  (2 Samuel 21:10-13).

But what could Rizpah do? The deaths of her sons had left her in a particularly vulnerable position; she was now only a widow and a childless one at that. Her sons were the property of the Gibeonites. She couldn’t ease her pain and grief by the normal tender ministrations of washing the bodies, wrapping them in oils and spices, followed by a burial in a family grave. Her sons were just left to be fodder for the appetites of vultures or large animals. [2]

The Bible said "After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land." (2 Samuel 21:14)
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Did David with his enormous charm and magnetic charisma succeed in seducing Michal and Ahinoam? Is it possible that Michal’s rage noted above is a reaction to finding her mother in David’s bed? Did David inherit or kidnap Saul’s wife and then marry her as a partial means of obtaining his kingship? Several scholars have indeed suggested that the two Ahinoam’s are the same person. [11]

Alternatively if Ahinoam is not Saul’s wife David’s taking additional wives could be considered by Saul and Michal as a rejection of the Saulide connection and the creation of a new alliance with Abigail and Hebron. That could explain the conflict between David and Michal over the Ark incident.


Bathsheba
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Bathsheba, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
PHOTO: Bathsheba, Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)
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Prayer For The Journey.
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Reflection - Ahinoam - Woman of the Bible
By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator



Reference
[1] David's Wives: Love, Lust and Power, By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator, http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm

[2] A Woman Of Extraordinary Strength and Resolve, Posted by Shari Hervold on Monday, 16 February 2015, http://friendsneedingfriends.blogspot.sg/2015/02/a-woman-of-extraordinary-strength-and.html

[10] Levenson and Halpern, JBL, pg. 515.

[11] Jon Levenson, CBQ, pgs. 27-28 and James C. Vandererkam, David’s Complicity in the Deaths of Abner and Eshbaal, Journal of Biblical Literature, vol. 99/4, 1980, pg. 528.

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2 Samuel 21:1-2 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Samuel+21%3A1-2&version=NIV

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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Reflection - Abigail, Good in Discretion and Beautiful in Form - Woman of the Bible

Source Website: http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm
By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator


Beautiful Abigail Who Acted With Discretion
PHOTO: Beautiful Abigail Who Acted With Discretion
 “Good in Discretion and Beautiful in Form”
Abigail was altogether different from Nabal. Her name means “My Father Has Made Himself Joyful.” Many a father is proud to have a beautiful daughter, but a wise father is far happier to discern inner beauty in his child. All too often, a person blessed with outward beauty fails to see the need to develop such qualities as discretion, wisdom, courage, or faith. Not so with Abigail. The Bible praises her for her discretion as well as for her beauty (1 Samuel 25:3).
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Abigail is the wife of Nabal (whose name denotes a fool or glutton - it is difficult to believe this a real name), a wealthy landowner in the Hebron. She is noted as wise and beautiful (1 Samuel 25:3) especially in contrast to her husband.  Nabal asks ‘Who is this David and who is the son of Jesse? (1 Samuel 25:10-11). Everyone in Israel was familiar with David and his status as first a hero and then his rebellion against Saul. His question is rhetorical and foolish. His slaves tell his wife of their master’s foolishness and she decides to take matters into her own hands. Her wisdom and beauty are apposite his drunkenness and foolishness. [7] She has been compared to the wise woman of Proverbs 31:10-31 based on her these texts. The Talmud considered her the most important of David’s wives and the most beautiful, placing her next to Sarah, Rebekah, Leah and Rachel, the Matriarchs.


Nabal refused to even feed the hungry men that were with David.
PHOTO: Nabal refused to even feed the hungry men that were with David. All they had asked for a piece of bread. He ordered them off of his property. His slaves tell his wife of their master’s foolishness and she decides to take matters into her own hands. When Abigail heard what happened, she immediately went to David’s camp and apologized. Her wisdom and beauty are apposite his drunkenness and foolishness.
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When Nabal refuses David request for provisions for his army (in his war against Saul), David prepares to kill him. Abigail intercedes on her husband’s behalf and supplies David with the necessary provisions. She begs David in the name of the Lord who she notes will make him king not to shed her husband’s blood. David responds ‘Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt’ (1 Samuel 25:33).  She is the first person to declare David to be King though he is at the moment only a mere renegade. She prevents God’s chosen from murdering her husband. She then tells David that he will become King of Israel and asks to be remembered. This wealthy woman refers to herself four times in her brief talk as ‘your maidservant’ (1 Samuel 25:24,25,27,31).


Please, let your slave girl speak in your ears
PHOTO: “Please, let your slave girl speak in your ears”
She took responsibility for the problem and asked David to forgive her personally. She realistically acknowledged that her husband was as senseless as his name implied, perhaps suggesting that it would be beneath David’s dignity to chastise such a man. She expressed her trust in David as God’s representative, recognizing that he was fighting “the wars of God.” She also indicated that she knew of God’s promise regarding David and the kingship, for she said: “God . . . certainly will commission you as leader over Israel.” Further, she urged David not to take any action that might bring bloodguilt upon him or that might later become “a cause for staggering (deeply shock)” - evidently referring to a troubled conscience (1 Samuel 25:24-31). Kind, moving words!
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Abigail courageously told Nabal what she had done to save his life
PHOTO: Abigail courageously told Nabal what she had done to save his life
Again showing both courage and discretion, she waited until the next morning when the influence of the wine had ebbed. He would be sober enough to understand her, yet possibly more dangerous in his temper as well. Still, she approached and told him the whole story. No doubt she expected him to explode in fury, perhaps violence. Instead, he just sat there, not moving (1 Samuel 25:37).
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David listens carefully and blesses her. Her husband dies of ‘natural’ causes - he drinks himself to death as a reaction to Abigail having provided the needs for David army. The text also tells us that the Lord struck him down (1 Samuel 25:38). David subsequently marries her and inherits Nabal’s valuable estate. [8] Abigail is the only wife actively requested by David in marriage (1 Samuel 25:40). It is clear that David admired and perhaps even loved Abigail. They have a son, Kileab, but both mysteriously and surprisingly disappear rather quickly from David’s life.


Here is your slave girl
PHOTO: “Here is your slave girl,” she responded, “as a maidservant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
Besides the release from a bad marriage, Abigail had another blessing in store. When he learned of the death of Nabal, David sent messengers to propose marriage. “Here is your slave girl,” she responded, “as a maidservant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.” Clearly, she was not changed by the prospect of  becoming David’s wife; she even offered to be a servant to his servants! Then we read again of her hastening, this time to ready herself to go to David (1 Samuel 25:39-42).
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David through Nabal’s widow gained some legitimacy and rules the territory of Hebron.  Control of Hebron was a key to David’s success and reign. [9]

When the text tells us that David married Abigail it adds that he also married Ahinoam of Jezreel (1 Samuel 25:42-43).


Ahinoam, said to come from Jezreel, is King David’s wife and the mother of his eldest son, Amnon. All references to her occur with, or in close literary proximity to Abigail.
PHOTO: Ahinoam, said to come from Jezreel, is King David’s wife and the mother of his eldest son, Amnon. All references to her occur with, or in close literary proximity to Abigail.
Only one other character named Ahinoam appears in the Hebrew Bible (Saul’s wife; 1 Samuel 14:50). Because she is roughly a contemporary of David’s wife, it is possible that “Ahinoam of Jezreel” is Saul’s wife Ahinoam. Citing God’s words (via the prophet Nathan) to David, “I gave you … your master’s wives” (2 Samuel 12:8).
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David and Abigail Met, and Later Got Married (1 Samuel 25)
PHOTO: David and Abigail Met, and Later Got Married (1 Samuel 25)
After Nabal’s refusal to provide food, David had planned on killing Nabal and his household, but he relented because of Abigail.  So Abigail saved her foolish husband and her household by her wisdom.

"Dear Lord, Thank You for letting us know that we don’t need to have an important position to make a difference. We need not have to carry a great deal of authority but yet able to play a supporting role to assist others behind the scenes. No one may know about it, but the service can make a BIG difference just like Abigail’s did. Amen!" [2]
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By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator



Reference
[1] David's Wives: Love, Lust and Power, By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator, http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm

[2] Teaching Kids Key Life Learnings from 100 Biblical Characters: No. 44 – Abigail, Posted on 11 January 2016 by Liz Hagler, http://hookedonthebook.com/teaching-kids-key-life-learnings-from-100-biblical-characters-no-44-abigail/

[7] J.D. Levenson and B. Halpern, The Political Import of David’s Marriages, JBL, 99/4, 1980 and J.D. Levenson, I Samuel as Literature, CBQ, 40, 1978. pgs. 511-513.

[8] George Nicol, ‘David, Abigail and Bathsheba, Nabal and Uriah’, Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, 1998, #1.

[9] According to the Book of Chronicles David has a sister named Abigail (1 Chronicles 2:13-16). But her husband is named Ithra (or Jether) (1 Chronicles 2:17). After Nabal’s death did David’s sister rule over Hebron? Were there two Abigail’s - one David’s third wife and one his sister, who were sisters-in-law? Or is possible that they are the same person? That implies that David married his sister after the death of his rival Nabal to inherit her estates. Could David marry his sister - it was not unheard of in the ancient mid-east. Levenson, CBQ, pg. 27.

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Friday, May 6, 2016

Reflection - Michal - Woman of the Bible

Source Website: http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm
By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator


The beautiful Michal in the 1985 movie 'King David.'
PHOTO: The beautiful Michal in the 1985 movie “King David.”
2 Samuel 3:12-15
Abner sent messengers to David at Hebron, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and I will give you my support to bring all Israel over to you.”

He said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you: you shall never appear in my presence unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to see me.” Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ishbaal, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I became engaged at the price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Ishbaal sent and took her from her husband Paltiel the son of Laish. But her husband went with her, weeping as he walked behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back.
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The first of David’s wives was Michal, the daughter of King Saul; followed by Ahinoam – mother of Amnon; Abigail – mother of Kileab; Maacah – mother of Absalom and Tamar and daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; Haggith –  mother of Adonijah, Eglah mother of Ithream and Abital, mother of Shephatiah. David’s last wife was Bathsheba mother of Solomon.

David’s first marriage had been contracted in the days when he was a young hero at the court of King Saul. He was the ‘wonder boy’ shepherd who had overnight soothed Saul’s depressive nature and suddenly became a warrior - a slayer of giants. Saul first promised his older daughter Merab to David as a reward for having defeated the Philistines. Upon successfully completing his task David discovers that Saul, for no apparent stated reason, had married Merab off to another man - Adriel of Meholah [2] (1 Samuel 18:19). In fact Saul had expected that the Philistines would kill David. ‘Better than strike the blow myself let the Philistines do it’ (1 Samuel 18:17) and thus he never expected to have to marry David to Merab; he expected David to die. However David defeated the Philistines.


Saul presents his daughter Merab to David for wife
PHOTO: Saul presents his daughter Merab to David for wife
Saul first promised his older daughter Merab to David as a reward for having defeated the Philistines. Upon successfully completing his task David discovers that Saul, for no apparent stated reason, had married Merab off to another man - Adriel of Meholah [2] (1 Samuel 18:19).
Engraved by W.Artaud "Saul Representing his Daughter Merab to David", 1834, published in The Pictorial History of the Bible
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King Saul then offered David to marry his second daughter Michal.  We are told that Michal, the King’s younger daughter loved David. This explicit statement is a unique instance in the Bible of a woman telling of her love to a man (1 Samuel 18:20,28).[3] Interestingly enough no indication is made that this love was reciprocated on David’s part; only that he was quite willing to wed the princess  in order to become the King’s son-in-law (noted three times (1 Samuel 18:18,23,26) and thus entering into the royal family. This will not make him an heir apparent; Jonathan is, but puts David in a powerful but dangerous position.


King Saul never expected to have to marry David to Merab; he expected David to die.
PHOTO: King Saul never expected to have to marry David to Merab; he expected David to die. However David defeated the Philistines. King Saul then offered David to marry his second daughter Michal.  We are told that Michal, the King’s younger daughter loved David. This explicit statement is a unique instance in the Bible of a woman telling of her love to a man (1 Samuel 18:20,28).
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Saul set a bride-price for the groom David to receive Michal; to risk his life harvesting the foreskins of 100 Philistines. Again Saul did not expect David to succeed; we are twice that ‘Saul expected David to be killed by the Philistines’ (1 Samuel 18:21,25). Again David succeeded in fact provided 200 foreskins. There is something humorous about King Saul’s demand of foreskins of Philistines known infamously in the Bible as the uncircumcised. When David marries Michal we are told ‘and Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David; and Michal Saul’s daughter loved him. And Saul was more afraid of David’ (1 Samuel 18:28-29). What an intriguing juxtaposition; Saul was more afraid of David because God and Michal favored David his son-in-law! He realized his daughter’s love was counter productive to his intent. In truth Saul was intuitively correct, David was indeed going to succeed him and displace Jonathan’s succession.


Saul set a bride-price for the groom David to receive Michal; to risk his life harvesting the foreskins of 100 Philistines.
PHOTO: Saul set a bride-price for the groom David to receive Michal; to risk his life harvesting the foreskins of 100 Philistines. Again Saul did not expect David to succeed; we are twice that ‘Saul expected David to be killed by the Philistines’ (1 Samuel 18:21,25). Again David succeeded in fact provided 200 foreskins. There is something humorous about King Saul’s demand of foreskins of Philistines known infamously in the Bible as the uncircumcised.
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When Saul later sought to slay David, Michal assisted her husband escape thereby risking her father’s unpredictable and often violent wrath (1 Samuel 19:11-13). Michal herself remains in the Palace. Did Michal expect her husband to return shortly? David, despite meeting with Jonathan (1 Samuel 20:1-43) presumably near the palace does not return for her for many years.


So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
PHOTO: "So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped."
Painting by Gustave Doré, 1865, posted by Sarah Patten on 19 October 2015, (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Saul expected his daughter Michal to protect the ‘family dynastic business’ by being loyal to her father the King. What he realized was that her first loyalty was to her new husband. As the first King her father had no dynastic backing. Jonathan the heir presumptive had already accepted David as his brother and the likely heir to the throne (1 Samuel 18:3-4). Jonathan later made a covenant of protection between himself and David (1 Samuel 20:14-15). Both Michal and Jonathan would both protect David against Saul’s pursuit and violence. For reasons not clear at the moment David accepted that his connection to Jonathan would be more productive than connecting to Michal. Perhaps as we shall note later Michal could not bear children.


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. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, 'He is sick.'
PHOTO: 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. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick." (1 Samuel 19:12-14).
Michal Helps David Escape. Both Michal and Jonathan would both protect David against Saul’s pursuit and violence.
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Years later after Saul’s death Michal figures in the negotiations aimed primarily at attaining reconciliation between Judea and other tribes (later known as the kingdom of Israel) who followed the Saulide dynasty. When Saul’s son Ishbosheth led the other tribes David was approached by Abner Ishbosheth’s military commander, for a union between the two sides. David demanded the return of Michal who he had long left home and who Saul had married off to Paltiel as one of his terms in the agreement. He sent the demand to Ishbosheth, with a reminder that ‘I acquired her for one hundred  Philistine foreskins’ (2 Samuel 3:14); he had after all paid for her. Ishbosheth acceded to this demand seemingly giving David authority over him. Paltiel, Michal’s husband reacts with great dismay wailing and lamenting, he follows her part way of the journey back to David her first husband. David referred to Michal as his wife (2 Samuel 3:14) while the narrator refers to her as Paltiel’s wife (2 Samuel 3:15,16). The reader is informed of Paltiel’s reaction, however Michal’s reaction is significantly absent. The author created a tragic triangular symmetry telling us that Michal loved David and implicitly that Paltiel loved Michal but did not tell us either love was reciprocated. Shortly after Michal rejoined David we are told that he took ‘more concubines and wives; more sons and daughters were born to David (2 Samuel 5:13).



PHOTO: David demanded the return of Michal who he had long left home and who Saul had married off to Paltiel as one of his terms in the agreement. He sent the demand to Ishbosheth, with a reminder that ‘I acquired her for one hundred  Philistine foreskins’ (2 Samuel 3:14).
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Nothing more is said of Michal’s relationship with David until the great day when the Ark was brought up to Jerusalem. In a celebration of this occasion, complete with sacrifices and blasts of the shofar (a ram's-horn trumpet), the King himself leading, gird in the linen ephod worn by priests, whirls with all his might before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:14).  It is the supreme moment of his life, and leads directly to his house being declared the dynasty of God (2 Samuel 7).


David and the Ark when brought up to Jerusalem.
PHOTO: David and the Ark when brought up to Jerusalem.
In a celebration of this occasion, complete with sacrifices and blasts of the shofar (a ram's-horn trumpet), the King himself leading, gird in the linen ephod worn by priests, whirls with all his might before the Lord (2 Samuel 6:14).
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When Michal was brought back from Palti she was identified as the daughter of Saul, and not as the wife of David (2 Samuel 3:14). Earlier in 1 Samuel 19:11; 25:44 she was referred to as David’s wife. She is trapped in a dilemma of being the daughter of Saul the former King and her husband the present king. Saul and David had fought bitterly over the kingdom during her father’s lifetime and after his death fought a civil war for years to become the legitimate successor.


Michal is trapped in a dilemma of being the daughter of Saul the former King and her husband the present king.
PHOTO: Michal is trapped in a dilemma of being the daughter of Saul the former King and her husband the present king.  Saul and David had fought bitterly over the kingdom during her father’s lifetime and after his death fought a civil war for years to become the legitimate successor.
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Michal ‘looked out the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord, and she loathed him in her heart’ (2 Samuel 6:16).   As David came to bless his house/family she did not even wait for him to enter the palace, but stood in the doorway blocking him, in a stunning attack pouring out her rage and venom.  In the first and only dialogue she has with David (in the text) she said: ‘Did not the king of Israel honor today - exposing himself in the sight of the servant’s female servant’s, as one of the riffraff (people who are not respectable) might expose himself!’ (2 Samuel 6:20).

These are very strong words to describe the feelings of the woman who had once loved David and risked her life for him. This is this remarkably scornful and sexually debasing language towards her husband and king from a once loving wife. She accuses him of exposing himself to the lowest of the low, the female servant’s of his male servants. The man is now the King of Israel, but she is noted as the daughter of Saul and not David’s wife.


Michal ‘looked out the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord, and she loathed him in her heart’
PHOTO: Michal ‘looked out the window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord, and she loathed him in her heart’ (2 Samuel 6:16). She accuses him of exposing himself to the lowest of the low, the female servant’s of his male servants.
An unknown artist’s depiction of David dancing about the ark. This seems to be what wearing an Ephod alone would be like.
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To what did Michal allude when she said he ‘exposed’ himself? While many commentators suggest David was scantily clad nothing in the text suggests that. David was wearing an ephod, the priestly robe. Did she resent his was not wearing a royal robe? He was associating with the riffraff (people who are not respectable), while she acts as was part of an aristocracy (the highest class in certain societies). That, unlike her father, he was not a king with legitimate, sovereign status? Did she consider that David had illegitimately usurped the kingship from her father and his descendants?

David’s supposed nakedness was not the issue. [4] Did Michal, perhaps, sense that he demanded her back, tearing her away from a loving husband, not out of love for her as a person but rather as valuable dynastic property and a pawn in his political game? Her inner conflict between her father and two husbands; one loving and one probably not seem clear.

David response to Michal was that the Lord had chosen him over her father and over her father’s house, and made him prince over all Israel. David added that he would find honor among those she had scorned (2 Samuel 6:21-22).


Michal, perhaps, sensed that David demanded her back, tearing her away from a loving husband, was not out of love for her as a person but rather as valuable dynastic property and a pawn in his political game.
PHOTO: Michal, perhaps, sensed that David demanded her back, tearing her away from a loving husband, was not out of love for her as a person but rather as valuable dynastic property and a pawn in his political game.
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All of this occurred when David brought the ark to Jerusalem in a celebration with 30,000 persons and danced before the Lord and sings an intoxicated hymn (1 Chronicles 16:8-36). Saul never chose to bring the Ark back after it was hijacked during the days of Samuel.

The only other significant incident involving Michal was when she saved David from her father using ‘teraphim’ (1 Samuel 19:13) to make up as if David were in the bed. ‘Teraphim’ are a form of household idol most notably used by Laban, Rachel’s father and Jacob’s enemy (Genesis 31:19-42). Rachel steals her father gods to presumably dilute his power (at least psychologically) against her husband Jacob. Rachel is the mother of Benjamin and ancestress of Michal, the loved wife of Jacob (Genesis 29:18). David from the tribe of Judah ancestress is Leah the despised wife of Jacob (Genesis 29:31). The author of the Books of Samuel chose to have Michal who is noted as loving David use ‘teraphim’ to save David and then have her criticize  David when he is bringing the sacred ark to Jerusalem. Jacob loves Rachel and Michal loves David, unique incidents in the Hebrew Bible; both women use teraphim, idols, to help their beloved, each one of God’s favorites. The two love incidents connected with ‘teraphim’ and latter with the ark are intriguing juxtapositions (contrast).


‘Teraphim’ are a form of household idol. Love incidents in the bible connected with ‘teraphim’ are intriguing juxtapositions (contrast).
PHOTO: ‘Teraphim’ are a form of household idol. Love incidents in the bible connected with ‘teraphim’ are intriguing juxtapositions (contrast).
Here is an artist's reconstruction of Genesis 31:19-42, the shrine of the ancestors in the house of Laban, Rachel's father.
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The passage concludes (2 Samuel 6:23) with the remark that Michal remained childless all her life. There appears to be connection between the incident and this final statement, that she was barren as a punishment for her disrespect of her husband and King. However that may be incorrect. Michal lived with David at the palace before she helped him escape; she was then married by her father to Palti and lived with him for an unknown number of years. Michal had rejoined David when he resided in Hebron, he and his army then conquered Jerusalem, built a palace and had a successful war with the Philistines and brought the Ark to Jerusalem. These events all transpired during the period between Michal’s reunion with David and the incident over the Ark. This time is unspecified but several years probably ensued. Given that Michal lived with David known at the time to very fertile and with Paltiel it seems plausible that Michal may simply have suffered from infertility.


Michal had rejoined David when he resided in Hebron, he and his army then conquered Jerusalem, built a palace and had a successful war with the Philistines and brought the Ark to Jerusalem.
PHOTO: Michal had rejoined David when he resided in Hebron, he and his army then conquered Jerusalem, built a palace and had a successful war with the Philistines and brought the Ark to Jerusalem.
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We are told that ‘Michal’ and Adriel had five sons (2 Samuel 21:8); it is generally held by Jewish commentators that the name Michal is a scriptural error intended to read Merab, in as much as we are told Michal married Adriel (1 Samuel 18:19) and she had no children until the day of her death [5] (2 Samuel 6:23). [6]


David wasn't in love with Michal, but she did give him an advantage in the fight for the kingdom.
PHOTO: David wasn't in love with Michal, but she did give him an advantage in the fight for the kingdom. Michal lived with David at the palace where she helped him escape before. As punishment for her contempt, Michal was barren for the rest of her life. Being the institutor of marriage, God said wives are to respect their husbands, “for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church.” [Ephesians 5:23] That is true in the wife’s outward behaviour, and doubly so in the sentiments of her heart.

"Dear Lord, We pray that we learned that to despise and laugh at others can cause defensive action being taken against us. Amen!"
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Reference
[1] David's Wives: Love, Lust and Power, By Rabbi Moshe Reiss, moshereiss@moshereiss.org, Bible Commentator, http://www.moshereiss.org/articles/22_david.htm

[2] The Septuagint Codex Vaticanus does not include the Merab marriage proposal. P.K. McCarter suggests it may have come from a later redactor, ‘1 Samuel, a New Translation’ (N.Y., Doubleday, 1980) pg. 306-308.

[3] Prior to this we are told Saul loved David (1 Samuel 16:21), Jonathan loved David (1 Samuel 18:1,3) and all Israel loved David (1 Samuel 18:16); all using the same Hebrew root ‘ahava’. Thus the ‘ahava’ that Michal expressed to David may be different that the modern romantic love between a man and a woman.

[4] Cheryl Exum, Murder They Wrote, pg. 184, in Bach, Alice, ed., The Pleasure of Her Text, (Trinity Press, Philadelphia, 1990).

[5] One Talmudic sage suggested that David married both sisters, another that Michal later died in child birth, another that Michal adopted Merab’s children after her death (BT San. 19b).

[6] In the Masoretic text Michal is listed; some Septuagint codices state Merab, Solvang, Elna, K., ‘A Women’s Place is in the House’, JSOT #349 (Sheffield University, Sheffield, 2003) pg. 106. David allowed the five sons, noted as the sons of Adriel and Michal to be hanged (2 Samuel 21:8-9). It is clear David did not protect these grandchildren of Saul with the exception of Jonathan’s son, Mephishobet, whom he had committed to protect.

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