The daughter of King Saul and David’s first wife, who loved David and helped him escape her father’s murderous plot by lowering him through a window. Their marriage was complicated by Saul’s jealousy—he gave Michal to another man during David’s exile. When David brought the Ark to Jerusalem dancing with abandon, Michal despised him for what she saw as undignified behavior. She died childless, a poignant symbol of the division between Saul’s house and David’s.
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him.1 Samuel 18:20 · Berean Standard Bible
Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David, and when this was reported to Saul, it pleased him. “I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.” Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become…
Jonathan's soul is knit to David's. Meanwhile, Saul's jealousy grows with every song the women sing. One friendship deepens as one king unravels.
Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him and kill him in the morning. But David’s wife Michal warned him, “If you do not run for your life tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!” So Michal lowered David from the window, and he ran away and escaped. Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment. When Saul sent the messengers to seize David, Michal said, “He is ill.”…
Saul tries to pin David to the wall with a spear. Michal helps David escape through a window. The future king becomes a fugitive.
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he…
David dances before the ark with all his might. Michal despises him for it. Worship that costs you your dignity is worship that means something.
Michal doesn't appear in the direct line from Adam to Jesus, but stands one step from it through David, who does. See the whole line.
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