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Clothes and Houses
What Sarah wore, the tents
they lived in
What
were families like in ancient Israel?
How were they different?
Bible Women:
Major Events
Choosing a husband, marrying him
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LOVING
THE WRONG MAN
Michal's
Story in brief
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She grew up as a tribal
princess - her father was King Saul, her mother Ahinoam
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She fell
passionately in love with David, but there is no mention of him
responding
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Saul offered her to
David, almost certainly on her prompting. Saul demanded a bride price
of one hundred Philistine foreskins - goading David into a dangerous
task
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David was already close
friends with Michel's brother Jonathan
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David got the
foreskins - how?- and married Michal
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Saul and David
quarrelled, and David fled
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Michal took sides
with David against her father, and saved David's life
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David became a
fugative on the run, but he did not contact her or send for her
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David took other
wives, and Michal realized she had been discarded; she began to
suspect she was a starter wife
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Some time later Michal remarried and
had a successful and loving marriage
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Saul was at war with
the Philistines; he his three sons were killed. Michal was now in
a precarious position. One of Saul's sons, her brother Ishbaal, was still
alive but he was
young and inexperienced. She was without any strong protection
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David took the
capital, Hebron, and opposed Saul's one remaining son Ishbaal
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David demanded that
Michal return to him; possession of Saul's daughter would enhance his claim to the throne
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Michal was reunited with David, by
force; her husband
was heart-broken to lose
her
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Reconstruction
of the Ark of the Covenant, Tissot
The final quarrel between Michal and David was about
respect/disrespect in the presence of the Ark |
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David murdered
Michal's brother Ishbaal;
Michal was virtually a prisoner in David's harem.
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David established
Jerusalem as his capital and moved the Ark to Jerusalem
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David behaved in an
unkingly and indecent way in the Ark procession
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Michal reproved him,
and they had a blazing quarrel
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Michal continued to
live in the harem, but she never had any
children
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19th century
drawing of the women's quarters (harem) of the Turkish Sultan in
Istanbul.
A woman could be trapped in the harem for life particularly if,
like Michal, she was there against her will. King David's harem
would have been much smaller. |
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