Michal DESPISED David for dancing before the Lord

tonychanyt said:

2S 6:


It was a celebration occasion. People were in a party mood.


It's bad sign when a wife despises her husband. Something was wrong in their relationship. Michal was the party pooper. Why?


She didn't think her husband the king behaved properly with royal dignity. She failed to appreciate the spiritual connection between David and God. David humbled himself before God and rejoiced in the Lord in dancing with all his might. She couldn't relate to that. She had trouble relating to God as her sovereign and relating to David as her husband.


David vented his anger to her and her father. He wasn't being nice to his wife, and the two had a communication problem.


Now he was being sarcastic and threatening:


Michal says that David is a fool for dancing. Is she correct?

No, she was wrong. David did it to show his humility and joy before the Lord. She couldn't relate to that. This episode showed how different their personalities were and their marriage was on the rocks.

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1 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out from his house,
2 and she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
3 and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband who took her to be his wife dies,
4 then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before YHWH and you shall not bring sin on the land which YHWH your God gives you as an inheritance."

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