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So close did David come to killing his father-in-law that the story of his rise to the throne could have been a short one, but in the end the two men come to an awkward truce. He raises a band of loyal soldiers, and over time the coup begins to come into fruition. Sum it to say, to help David escape, Michal chose to lie to her father, buying David precious time, even though it meant choosing her husband over her father and king in a very serious way.Īnd from this escape we go on to read about how David goes on the lamb.

Because we read David ran, and while he was almost caught by Saul’s forces, it was only by Michal’s help, and a plan that reads more like something out of Looney Tunes than the Bible ( 1 Samuel 19:15-17 if you are interested), that he managed to escape. Saul caused the very rebellion he was afraid of. So convinced Saul was, that he actually attacks David with a spear, and that, as they say is that. It was long enough, though, that King Saul, far from feeling that marrying David to his daughter was enough to keep the young man from leading a rebellion, instead becomes convinced that a coup is just around the corner. Likely it wasn’t terribly long, as the next part of their story takes place only a chapter later in 1 Samuel 19. There is an undisclosed amount of time between the wedding and the next time we see the couple together. And so in a marriage of love in one hand, and political expedience on the other, Michal marries her love David, just as David marries the king’s daughter.Īnd the story goes on. Because, in monarchies, there tends to be a thin line between heroes of the people and would be usurpers, and so marrying these kinds of people into the ruling clan was a way to keep that kind of ambition in check. But the second reason was really the more important of the two. First, it would surely boost Saul’s popularity among the people as well, being seen close to heroes tends to do that, after all. And so, Saul figures, as all good kings would, that if he brings David into the family, that would be a good thing on two fronts. King Saul finds out that his daughter has it bad for David, who was a hero of the people at this point in the story. This is the first thing we learn about Michal’s character, but sadly as we shall see, sometimes love, even of the fiercest kind, can be misplaced.Īs we continue on in the book of 1 Samuel, we see the story of Michal and David progress. She loved David so much as to be remembered strongly for just that. She loves David so strongly that she defies every expectation of proper conduct in scripture. That is the strength with which this secondary character is first introduced to us. When the person writing about them begins to talk about who originally had eyes for whom, it is always the man who first loves the woman. There are even some examples of lovers where things turn out well, but with all of the examples in the entire book, there is one commonality. There is Samson and Delilah and Ahab and Jezebel. In the Bible, there are a number of stories about love. She is the daughter of a man named Saul, the first king of the Israelites, and the first time you meet her, you are told only one thing about her that she is madly in love with a young man named David ( 1 Samuel 18:17-30). You can find her story in the books of First and Second Samuel. One of my favourite people in the Bible, is a secondary, fade into the background character, named Michal.