Quotes About Michal

God met with Michal also, for despising her husband, merely upon a religious ac count, because he showed a holy zeal for God, which her proud spirit, as many others since have done, thought it too mean and base to do. Well, what is her punishment? 'Therefore Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child unto the day of her death.' The service of God was too low for a king in her thoughts, therefore shall none come out of her womb to sit on the throne or wear a crown.

Love never thinks itself a loser so long as it keeps its beloved; yea, it is ambitious of any hazardous enterprise, whereby it may sacrifice itself in the service of its beloved, as we see in David, who put his life in his hands for Michal. How much more so when our love is pitched upon so transcendent an object as Christ and his truth!

Michal leaps out of the void as a name, a significant relation (Saul's daughter), and an emotion (her love for David). This love, twice stated here, is bound to have special salience because it is the only instance in all biblical literature in which we are explicitly told that a woman loves a man.

Michal too would catch one last glimpse of him in a dream. In 1958 she told a friend: I dreamt of Charles the other night. He was standing on a niche in a cathedral I could not identify. His garments were beyond whiteness & he looked very very grave & he looked & looked at me.1526

When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

But Saul had given his daughter Michal, Davidís wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

“Good,” replied David, “I will make a covenant with you. But there is one thing I require of you: Do not appear before me unless you bring Saulís daughter Michal when you come to see me.”

Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saulís daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saulís daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saulís daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.