1 Samuel 18:20
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
David’s Marriage to Michal
20 Now Saul’s daughter Michal(A) loved David, and when it was reported to Saul, it pleased him.
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1 Samuel 18:27
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
27 David and his men went out and killed two hundred[a] Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.(A)
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- 18:27 LXX reads 100
1 Samuel 19:12
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
12 So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.(A)
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2 Samuel 6:20-23
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
20 When David returned home to bless his household,(A) Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. ‘How the king of Israel honoured himself today! ’ she said. ‘He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.’
21 David replied to Michal, ‘It was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel.(B) I will dance before the Lord, 22 and I will dishonour myself and humble myself even more.[a][b] However, by the slave girls you spoke about, I will be honoured.’ 23 And Saul’s daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.
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