David'S Love With Michal And Abigail (1)

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. (Song of Songs 8:6 NIV)Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth— for your love is more delightful than wine. (Song of Songs 1:2 NIV)

Two of David's many wives have the greatest influence on him, namely Michal and Abigail. Michal is the second daughter of King Saul, the first wife of David. Abigail was the wife of the rich man Nabal, who helped him in the most difficult time of David. After he died, Abigail followed with David.

- Michal and David

The husband and wife become one flesh, not alone, but become one flesh. One of Paul’s demands for overseer is to be a husband of a woman and manage his own family well. A split home will not stand rock-firm.

Obviously, the relationship between Michal and David is more biased towards the world. The Bible often refers to Michal as “the daughter of Saul” , not “the wife of David”.

As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord , she despised him in her heart. (2 Samuel 6:16 NIV)Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.” (1 Samuel 19:11 NIV)

She is more closer to Saul that God has rejected (1 Sam. 15:23), better than David who is a man after God's own heart(Acts 13:22).

For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance like the evil of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord , he has rejected you as king.” (1 Samuel 15:23 NIV)After removing Saul, he made David their king. God testified concerning him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse, a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.’ (Acts 13:22 NIV)

Michal loves David because of his external conditions, his honour on the battlefield and the praise of the women (1 Sam. 18:7, 20), but she does not realize David's spiritual practice, and this practice is the root of his battlefield victory. Saul gave Michal to David to use her as a bait to push David into a dangerous war, hoping to bring him to death. But David won, and Saul had to reluctantly marry Michael to him.

As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.” ...Now Saul’s daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased. (1 Samuel 18:7,20 NIV)

1. Michal did not lead to the spiritual side of David, but led to the physical side of David.

Michal did not help David to exert her best potential. She led David to show the fleshy side and kill two hundred Philistines in exchange for Michal (1 Sam 18:27). In addition, when Michal had been married again to Paltiel, David used Michal to negotiate with Abner, forcing him to bring Michal back, so that Paltiel, who loved her deeply, cried and wept.

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage. (1 Samuel 18:27 NIV)

“Good,” said David. “I will make an agreement with you. But I demand one thing of you: Do not come into my presence unless you bring Michal daughter of Saul when you come to see me.” Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, demanding, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.” So Ish-Bosheth gave orders and had her taken away from her husband Paltiel son of Laish. Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back. (2 Samuel 3:13-16 NIV)

2. Michal shares David's glory, but does not want to share David's humiliation.

Michal is happy to share David's glory, but is not willing to share the shame of his abandonment. When Saul pursued David, Michal helped to fled for him, but she did not want to follow him to escape. She helped David escape and used a idol hidden in the quilt to pretend to be her husband to help his husband escape. There is a idol in her family that we can see her heart is not a pure return to God. When Saul asked her why she send David away, Michal said: David said: Let me get away, why should i koll you? In Corinthians said: Love does not seek for its own benefits. Although Michal loves David however she loves herself more than David.

Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.” So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped. Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head. When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.” Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.” But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats’ hair. Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?” Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Let me get away. Why should I kill you?’ ” When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there. (1 Samuel 19:11-18 NIV)

3. When the environment changes, Michal is fickle and unfaithful.

After David fled. Saul gave her to Paltiel (1 Sam 25:44). The two of them quickly established intimate feelings (2 Sam. 3:16). Apparently, she did not show her loyalty to her husband David.

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim. ( 1 Samuel 25:44 NIV)Her husband, however, went with her, weeping behind her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go back home!” So he went back. (2 Samuel 3:16 NIV)

4. Michal is not enthusiastic about God.

She did not love the ark of the covenant and the sanctuary of God like David, which led to the greatest division between them. David could not rest until the Ark returned to the sanctuary in Jerusalem. Michal did not have any positive sense of these things, and even saw David's enthusiasm and joy in the ark. She despised him in his heart (2 Sam. 6:16) and maliciously criticized his actions.

As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord , she despised him in her heart. (2 Samuel 6:16 NIV)

5. Michal did not bear fruit for her Lord.

She did not have any children for David. Her life did not "fruit" for her Lord, which is a lamentable thing.

And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death. (2 Samuel 6:23 NIV)