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David and MichalConsider the story of David's wife Michal:
And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
So Michal is David's first wife, or what God would call the
wife of his youth (Malachi 2:14-16). Then David must flee
from Saul to escape death (1Samuel 19:17). We see during
the time of his fleeing Saul that he takes Abigail to be his wife
(1 Samuel 25:39-42)
(only after her husband, Nabal [note that the LORD struck Nabal,
and he died. The practical application here is that the LORD
can free up someone who is in a divorced situation to remarry
by striking the offending spouse - or the one that left the marriage,
committed adultery, etc.], dies, else it would have been adulterous),
then he took Anihoam of Jezreel to be his wife (1 Samuel 5:43).
Now David has two wives in man's eyes, but really three in God's eyes.
Right after this we see that Saul gives Michal to another man:
And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him. 1 Samuel 18:27b-28
But Saul had given Michal his daughter,
David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim. 1 Samuel 25:44 Now we see that Michal is really in an adulteress relationship with Phalti (Matthew 5:32). Then, David is annointed King of Judah (in 2 Samuel 2), then he has children by both Ahinoam and Abigail, and he mentions a third wife (in God's eyes a fourth wife) named Eglah (only mentioned two times in the Bible -- 2 Samuel 3:5, 1 Chronicles 3:3). After this, we see that David commands his first wife to be brought back to him:
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying,
Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines. 2 Samuel 3:14 Although, Michal was currently married to Phalti, David still considered her his wife. Then, it is interesting to note that "she despised him in her heart" (2 Samuel 6:16)....but yet David was faithful to his LORD. And then we see in 2 Samuel 6:23, "Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death." It appears that the LORD made her barren, possibly as a punishment. Related Articles
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