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Gibeah District
| Name | MICHAL |
| Aliases | DAUGHTER OF SAUL / FIRST WIFE OF DAVID / WHO LOVED HIM, THEN DESPISED HIM |
| Status | DECEASED / SAVED DAVID'S LIFE / DIED CHILDLESS AFTER SCORNING HIS WORSHIP |
| Birth | UNRECORDED | Marks & Identifiers | THE PRINCESS WHO LOWERED DAVID FROM A WINDOW |
| Place of Birth | GIBEAH | Hair | UNRECORDED |
| Tribe | BENJAMIN (HOUSE OF SAUL) | Eyes | UNRECORDED |
| Parentage | DAUGHTER OF SAUL | People | THE HOUSE OF SAUL |
| Occupation | PRINCESS / WIFE OF DAVID | Species | HUMAN |
| Affiliation | THE HOUSE OF SAUL AND OF DAVID | Calling | THE WIFE WHOSE HEART TURNED FROM LOVE TO SCORN |
| Primary Mission | STAND BESIDE DAVID AS HIS WIFE | Known Signs | THE ESCAPE THROUGH THE WINDOW / THE SCORN AT THE ARK |
| Covenant Role | A DAUGHTER CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO HOUSES | Divine Access | INDIRECT / UNDER THE HOUSES OF SAUL AND DAVID |
| Divine Encounter Level | INDIRECT | Matriarchal Classification | THE KING'S DAUGHTER |
| Covenant Status | BETWEEN TWO HOUSES | Known Miracles | NONE RECORDED |
| Divine Commission | MIXED | Threat Assessment | SAUL'S PLOTS / HER OWN CONTEMPT |
| Mission Status | ESTRANGED / DIED CHILDLESS | Archive Category | MONARCHY / A DIVIDED HEART |
How she saved David from Saul: LOWERED HIM FROM A WINDOW BY NIGHT
Why she despised him at the ark: HE DANCED BEFORE THE LORD WITH ALL HIS MIGHT
The subject was a daughter of Saul who loved David, and Saul gave her to him as wife, though he hoped David would fall to the Philistines in gaining her.
When Saul sent men to kill David in his house, the subject let him down through a window so he escaped, and put an idol in the bed to deceive the messengers, saving his life.
In David's exile Saul gave her to another man; but when David came to power he required her return, and she was taken back to him, though bitterly.
When David brought the ark up to the City of David, dancing before the LORD with all his might, the subject watched from a window and despised him in her heart for what she saw as an undignified display.
She came out to scorn him, and David answered that he had danced before the LORD who chose him over her father's house, and would be even more lightly esteemed. And the subject had no child to the day of her death.
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- Love can cool into contempt when pride takes the place of devotion.
- Do not despise wholehearted, humble worship offered to the Lord.
- A heart divided between loyalty to God and to self grows barren.
