gSee Gen. 31:19
1 Samuel 18:27-28
27David arose and went, aalong with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. bAnd David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife. 28But when Saul saw and knew that cthe Lord was with David, dand that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,1 Samuel 19:11-17
11 eSaul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.” 12 fSo Michal let David down through the window, and he fled away and escaped. 13Michal took gan image ▼▼Or a household god
and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. 14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” 15Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” 16And when the messengers came in, behold, ithe image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head. 17Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. jWhy should I kill you?’” 1 Samuel 25:44
44Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.2 Samuel 3:13-14
13And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, kyou shall not see my face unless you first bring lMichal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.” 14Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, mfor whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
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