1Sa 18:22 | KingComments | STEP | What Saul may have intended to hurt David, becomes the reason for a new love to reveal itself. There is a new candidate. Michal loves David. They tell Saul, and he sees a new chance to get rid of David. Michal really loves David ( ). She later provides proof of her love ( ). She defies her father and helps David escape. However, Michal is always called “the daughter of Saul”. Her origins continue to play tricks on her, as is often the case with us. She has never been able to subject the character of her origin to her love for David and has never really known him. In Michal we see believers who are like all who are in Asia who turned away from Paul ( ). They love the Lord, but they do not know the Lord as Paul knows Him. Michal represents a carnal Christian. We see this in her attitude when David, full of happiness that the ark goes to the city of God, dances before the ark. Then she despises him ( ). Michal loves certain aspects of David, but others she does not. If there is anything about the Lord Jesus that does not please us, it is our fault. Michal remains infertile until the day of her death. If we confess the Lord Jesus as Savior, but do not approach Him as a worshiper, spiritual infertility is the result. By saying to David that he can become his son-in-law for the second time, Saul presents it as if his first daughter was also connected to David as wife. He claims him as it were. He also involves his servants in the plot to persuade David to take Michal to wife. Saul also knows that all his servants love David. They have seen how this young man has felled Goliath. David is their hero. Whoever hears of the Lord Jesus as the great Conqueror can only love Him. We do not read of the servants that they hated David, but they have not chosen undividedly his side either. When Saul speaks about killing David, they keep their mouths and do not speak up for him ( ). It is not easy to testify of the Lord Jesus when He is blasphemed, but he who really loves Him will not keep silent. When you come somewhere, they don’t know you, it is important to let them know as soon as possible that you belong to Him, such as at school, at work, in the neighborhood. If you do not do it right away, it often becomes only more difficult. When the servants come to David and tell him what Saul said, David repeats his humble position. With this David indicates that he wants to be Saul’s son-in-law. When the servants return to Saul with this answer, Saul understands. As with Merab, Saul also connects a condition with David’s marriage to his daughter Michal. He asks for a dowry, but a strange one: a hundred foreskins of the Philistines. David is not rich, but Saul has a dowry in mind that makes him think he can get rid of David thereby.

‏ 1 Samuel 18:22

Michal’s Love for David

What Saul may have intended to hurt David, becomes the reason for a new love to reveal itself. There is a new candidate. Michal loves David. They tell Saul, and he sees a new chance to get rid of David.

Michal really loves David (1Sam 18:28). She later provides proof of her love (1Sam 19:12). She defies her father and helps David escape. However, Michal is always called “the daughter of Saul”. Her origins continue to play tricks on her, as is often the case with us. She has never been able to subject the character of her origin to her love for David and has never really known him.

In Michal we see believers who are like all who are in Asia who turned away from Paul (2Tim 1:15). They love the Lord, but they do not know the Lord as Paul knows Him. Michal represents a carnal Christian. We see this in her attitude when David, full of happiness that the ark goes to the city of God, dances before the ark. Then she despises him (2Sam 6:16 ; 20-23). Michal loves certain aspects of David, but others she does not. If there is anything about the Lord Jesus that does not please us, it is our fault. Michal remains infertile until the day of her death. If we confess the Lord Jesus as Savior, but do not approach Him as a worshiper, spiritual infertility is the result.

By saying to David that he can become his son-in-law for the second time, Saul presents it as if his first daughter was also connected to David as wife. He claims him as it were. He also involves his servants in the plot to persuade David to take Michal to wife. Saul also knows that all his servants love David. They have seen how this young man has felled Goliath. David is their hero. Whoever hears of the Lord Jesus as the great Conqueror can only love Him.

We do not read of the servants that they hated David, but they have not chosen undividedly his side either. When Saul speaks about killing David, they keep their mouths and do not speak up for him (1Sam 19:1). It is not easy to testify of the Lord Jesus when He is blasphemed, but he who really loves Him will not keep silent. When you come somewhere, they don’t know you, it is important to let them know as soon as possible that you belong to Him, such as at school, at work, in the neighborhood. If you do not do it right away, it often becomes only more difficult.

When the servants come to David and tell him what Saul said, David repeats his humble position. With this David indicates that he wants to be Saul’s son-in-law. When the servants return to Saul with this answer, Saul understands. As with Merab, Saul also connects a condition with David’s marriage to his daughter Michal. He asks for a dowry, but a strange one: a hundred foreskins of the Philistines. David is not rich, but Saul has a dowry in mind that makes him think he can get rid of David thereby.