20 30. David’s marriage with Michal<\/p>\n
20<\/strong>. Michal Saul’s daughter loved David<\/em> ] According to the text of the Sept. this follows immediately upon 1Sa 18:16<\/em><\/span>. By his bravery David won the affections of the people, and even of the king’s daughter.<\/p>\n The thing pleased him – <\/B>It partly relieved him from the charge of breaking his faith.<\/P><\/p>\n Not for any respect he had to David, but for his own malicious and wicked ends, that he might make use of her love to David, to insnare and ruin him, which he thought might be done many ways, whereof one is here expressed. <\/P> <\/p>\n 20. Michal Saul’s daughter lovedDavid<\/B>This must have happened some time after. <\/P> they told Saul, and the thingpleased him<\/B>Not from any favor to David, but he saw that itwould be turned to the advancement of his malicious purposes, and themore so when, by the artful intrigues and flattery of his spies, theloyal sentiments of David were discovered.<\/P><\/p>\n And Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David<\/strong>,…. His youngest daughter fell in love with him, because of the comeliness of his person, his gallant behaviour, his wise conduct, and the general esteem and reputation he was had in, as may be supposed:<\/p>\n and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him<\/strong>; not that his daughter loved David, or that he should be his son-in-law, but that he should have an opportunity, as he hoped, of destroying David, which he had lost by giving his elder daughter to another; as also of retrieving his credit with the people, which was greatly sunk by using David in the manner he did, who had become the darling of the people.<\/p>\n Marriage to Michal, vs. 20-30<\/strong><\/p>\n Saul continued to seek ways to circumvent David <\/em>and to remove him from the scene. At this time he learned that his youngest daughter, Michal, had fallen in love with David, and Saul, when he had contemplated it, thinks he sees a way to entrap David through her. He intends to work the arrangements out in such a way that David must surely be slain by the Philistines. So he sets his servants to persuade David to marry Michal, but David is not to know that Saul is behind it.<\/em><\/p>\n When approached on the subject of marrying the princess David again <\/em>pleads his poverty whereby he would be unable to pay the dowry for Michal. In addition he knew that he was very lightly esteemed by the king. When David’s feelings were conveyed to Saul the king had them return the word to David that he did not require a dowry for Michal’s hand. David could win that honor by attacking the Philistines and taking the foreskins of a hundred of them for Saul. Such an endeavor would be almost impossible to produce, for the Philistines would doubtless put forth great effort against David, and likely he would be killed.<\/em><\/p>\n It would appear here that David also wished to marry Michal <\/em>The demand of Saul came within the time set for Michal’s marriage, but there remained yet sufficient time for David to meet it. He promptly took his men out and attacked the Philistines, killing and taking the foreskins, not of a hundred as Saul demanded, but of a whole two hundred. David brought the whole bloody tally to the king and had them counted out to him. Saul then had no recourse than to allow David to marry Michal.<\/em><\/p>\n When Saul saw the deep love his daughter <\/em>had for his enemy he was still further alarmed and was the constant enemy of David. When the Philistine war was renewed, possibly as a result of Saul’s ridiculous demand of David, David went out with the armies. His wise conduct and prudent behavior among the men continually added to David’s stature with the armed forces. Saul could see that the Lord had protected David, and there seemed to be no way he could prevent it.<\/em><\/p>\n Some lessons: 1) <\/em>True servants of the Lord should rejoice in the advancement of others in His service; 2) God will protect those who are in His will, so that they may accomplish His tasks for them; 3) there is no way man may frustrate the will of God.<\/em><\/p>\n (20) And Michal Sauls daughter loved David.<\/strong>But the love of the younger of the two royal princesses for her fathers brilliant officer gave the unhappy king a fresh excuse to expose Davids life to peril, while at the same time he appeared to be endeavouring to carry out an old formal promise.<\/p>\n 20<\/strong>. <\/strong> Michal loved David <\/strong> Keil infers from this that perhaps one reason why Saul broke his promise was that Merab did not love David. <\/p>\n The thing pleased him <\/strong> For, as the next verse shows, he hoped to make it a snare for David’s life.<\/p>\n (20) And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. (21) And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him. Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in the one of the twain. (22) And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son in law. (23) And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed? (24) And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David. (25) And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king’s enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. (26) And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and the days were not expired. (27) Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife. (28) And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him. (29) And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually. (30) Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n I class all these together, for the sake of shortness, and because one or two general observations will suit all. Saul’s design is altogether evil, whether he withholds one daughter or promiseth another; it is but with a view to ruin David. But the humbleness of David’s mind, under the gracious power of God, defeats all his stratagems. I cannot suffer those verses to pass away from our view without remarking to the Reader, that if David thus thought so highly of being made son-in-law to an earthly prince, what views ought the people of God to entertain of their adoption-character who are made sons and daughters to the Lord God Almighty! Behold (saith an Apostle) what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called sons of God! Well might the Prophet, in the contemplation of gospel mercies exclaim, O! the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! See 2Co 6:18<\/span> ; 1Jn 3:1<\/span> ; Rom 11:33<\/span> .<\/p>\n 1Sa 18:20 And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.<\/p>\n Ver. 20. And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David.] Some Latin copies have it, And David loved Michal, Saul’s other daughter. Both may be true; there was mutual liking.<\/p>\n loved David: 1Sa 18:28, Gen 29:18, Gen 29:20, Gen 34:3, Judg. 16, 4, 15; 2Sam. 13, 1; 1Kings 11, 1, 2; Hos 3:1-5, 2 <\/p>\n pleased him: Heb. was right in his eyes <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 18:12 – afraid 1Sa 25:44 – Michal 2Sa 3:13 – Michal 2Sa 17:4 – the saying 1Ch 13:4 – the thing<\/p>\n 1Sa 18:20-21. The thing pleased him Not out of any love to David, or desire to perform his promise; but because he hoped, by her means, to bring his ends about of destroying David. That she may be a snare to him He hoped his daughter, in obedience to him, might be persuaded to bring him into some snare that he would lay for him: or that, being exposed to great dangers, (which he was to undergo, as a condition of having her to wife,) he might perish in some of them. Thou shalt be this day my son-in- law That is, shortly, within a little time. In the one of the twain Saul seems in this to have told David that though some reasons of state had obliged him to give his elder daughter to Adriel, yet still he would have him for his son-in-law, by giving the other unto him.<\/p>\n And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him. 20 30. David’s marriage with Michal 20. Michal Saul’s daughter loved David ] According to the text of the Sept. this follows immediately upon 1Sa 18:16. 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Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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