Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 3:15
And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, [even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
15. Phaltiel ] Called Phalti in 1Sa 25:44, where his marriage with Michal is recorded.
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For, being forsaken by Abner, he durst not deny David, into whose power he saw he must unavoidedly come; and besides he supposed that she might be an effectual instrument to make his peace with David.
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And Ishbosheth sent and took her from [her] husband,…. Her second husband, to whom Saul had given her, 1Sa 25:44;
[even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish; he is called Phalti in
1Sa 25:44.
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(15) And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish. (16) And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
There is somewhat affecting in this relation. Michal must have been dear to Phaltial; and yet, from her conduct to David afterwards, she doth not appear to have been very amiable. See 2Sa 6:202Sa 6:20 .
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2Sa 3:15 And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, [even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish.
Ver. 15. And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband. ] By his regal authority he rescindeth that unlawful matrimony of Phaltiel with Michal. This was better than that of Leicester in Queen Elizabeth’s reign, a who by his greatness bore out the marriage of Julio, an Italian physician, with another man’s wife; or that of some bishops in King James’s days, and by his appointment, in the business of Essex and Somerset; b or that of Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, who took another wife before his former wife was dead, not without the advice of Luther and other Dutch divines, who shamefully misled him. c
a Camden’s Elisab.
b Speed.
c Zanch’s Misc.
her. Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read “her” in the text.
Phaltiel. Same as Phalti (1Sa 25:44).
Phaltiel: 1Sa 25:44, Phalti
2Sa 3:15-16. Ish-bosheth sent and took her from Phaltiel This was an honourable action of Ish-bosheth to restore David his lawful wife. Her husband went with her along weeping Mr. Bayle, says Delaney, considers it as great cruelty in David to ravish her from a husband who loved her so well; that is, he thinks it a great cruelty to disturb Phaltiel in an adultery that was agreeable to him, and to redeem Michal from one, in all appearance, detestable to her, to restore her to her only husband, the husband of her affection and her choice, for whom she had so much tenderness as to save his life at the hazard of her own. Phaltiel was in distress, but it was such a distress as they all endure who are grieved to restore what they have no right to possess; and Mr. Bayle, from the same principles upon which he quarrels with David on this head, is obliged to be highly offended with every honest man who desires to have those goods restored to him of which he once was robbed, under all the circumstances of cruelty and iniquity. And therefore, in truth, Phaltiel is no proper object of pity; and yet his distress upon this occasion is one of the finest pictures of silent grief that any history hath left us. Conscious he had no right to complain, or molest Michal with his lamentations, he follows her at a distance, with a distress silent and self-confined: going (saith the text) and weeping behind her However such fine paintings of nature pass unregarded in the sacred writings, I am satisfied that in Homer we should survey this with delight. Abarbinel, and the Jewish rabbis in general, are of opinion that Phaltiel was a strictly religious man, and had had no nuptial commerce with Michal.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments