How does David respond to Michal? Do you notice how his answer in v21 starts and ends? It starts and ends with the phrase ‘before the LORD’. In other words – I’m not doing it for you – I’m doing it for God. What matters to me isn’t your verdict, but God’s. What other people think of us isn’t completely […]

Michal is unenthusiastic about David’s enthusiasm, and it begins in her heart. Look at v16. What identifies Michal with the spirit of Saul is firstly seen only to God. She looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. The crowd could have looked up and seen her […]

In this chapter, Michal, is described three times as the ‘daughter of Saul’. It’s telling us: ‘Like father, like daughter’. That ancient conflict between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent that’s played out across the pages of history, is being played out in front of us in this chapter. Where Michal really stands is seen […]