“Mikhal the daughter of Sha’ul remained childless until the day she died.”-2 Samuel 6:23 I have a good friend in Singapore who married about two years ago. When I asked him if he had any children yet, this is what he said: “We’re not planning on having kids! Like you, I enjoy my freedom. Having […]

“David answered Mikhal, ‘In the presence of Adonai —who chose me over your father and over everyone in his family to make me chief over Adonai’s people, over Israel — I will celebrate in the presence of Adonai!  I will make myself still more contemptible than that, and I will be humiliated in my own […]

Mikhal clearly hated being part of a harem. She was David’s first wife, given to him by King Saul. But if you go back to when Mikhal was forced to return to David, there’s no sign she was happy about it. Plus, here’s the kicker: Many of the women she looked down on for seeing […]

“When David returned to bless his household, Mikhal the daughter of Sha’ul came out to meet him and said, ‘Such honor the king of Isra’el earned for himself today — exposing himself before his servants’ slave-girls like some vulgar exhibitionist!’”-2 Samuel 6:20 Notice how the Scripture describes Mikhal as the “daughter of King Saul” as […]

Let’s dive deeper into Mikhal’s attitude toward David when she accused him of being an exhibitionist. This is important because it sheds light on those potentially dangerous attitudes we might harbor in our walk of faith with the Lord. When Michal said David exposed himself to the servant’s slave girls, two things were going on. […]