2 Samuel 3:13-14

3:13 So David said, “Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to visit me.” ¹ 

3:14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand: ²  “Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired ³  for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 6:20-21

6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ⁴  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ⁵  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁶  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁷  might do!”

6:21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family ⁸  and appointed me as leader over the Lord’s people Israel.

2 Samuel 17:20

17:20 When the servants of Absalom approached the woman at her home, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” The woman replied to them, “They crossed over the stream.” Absalom’s men ⁹  searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem. ¹⁰ 

2 Samuel 21:8

21:8 So the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah whom she had born to Saul, and the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab ¹¹  whom she had born to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

¹ tn The words “when you come to see my face,” though found in the Hebrew text, are somewhat redundant given the similar expression in the earlier part of the verse. The words are absent from the Syriac Peshitta.

² tn Heb “to Ish-bosheth son of Saul saying.” To avoid excessive sibilance (especially when read aloud) the translation renders “saying” as “with this demand.”

³ tn Heb “whom I betrothed to myself.”

³ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

⁴ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁵ tn Heb “honored.”

⁶ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”

⁴ tn Heb “all his house”; CEV “anyone else in your family.”

⁵ tn Heb “they”; the referents (Absalom’s men) have been specified in the translation for clarity.

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⁶ tc The MT reads “Michal” here, but two Hebrew manuscripts read “Merab,” along with some LXX manuscripts. Cf. 1 Sam 18:19.