Bride and Gloom: Affair Proof Your Marriage

David had done what was right in the eyes of the Lord….except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, and the wife of Uriah."

²⁰Now Saul’s daughter Michal was in love with David, and when they told Saul about it, he was pleased.

²⁸When Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David, ²⁹Saul became still more afraid of him, and he remained his enemy the rest of his days.

¹³Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.

David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the LORD with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets. As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.

When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!"

"It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the LORD. I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.” And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

…a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

⁹Better to live on a corner of the roof

than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

²³And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.