Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Samuel 25:44
Saul considered that David, as an outlaw, had forfeited his wife. But David himself never acknowledged this, and claimed Michal as his wife as soon as he had the power (2 Samuel 3:14).
Saul considered that David, as an outlaw, had forfeited his wife. But David himself never acknowledged this, and claimed Michal as his wife as soon as he had the power (2 Samuel 3:14).
Verse 1 Samuel 25:44. _PHALTI_] Called also _Phaltiel_, 2 Samuel 3:16. _OF GALLIM._] Probably a city or town in the tribe of Benjamin; see Isaiah 10:30. It is likely therefore that Saul ch
Saul’s giving Michal to Phalti was intended to mark the final rupture of his own relations with David (compare Judges 14:20; 2 Samuel 3:7; 2 Samuel 16:21). Phalti or Phaltiel Was compelled by Abner to...
CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The death of Samuel (1 Samuel 25:1)_ 2. Nabal and his refusal (1 Samuel 25:2) 3. Abigail's deed and her prayer (1 Samuel 25:14) 4. David's answer to Abigail ...
1 SAMUEL 25:1 A. (TO RAMAH). DEATH AND BURIAL OF SAMUEL. (An editorial addition.) 1 SAMUEL 25:1. IN HIS HOUSE: in the grounds belonging to it. 1 Samuel 25:1 b -...
MICHAL. Compare 2 Samuel 3:14; 2 Samuel 3:15,...
David's marriage with Abigail 39. _pleaded the cause_, &c. Exacted from Nabal a due penalty for the injury he did me. Cp. 1 Samuel 24:15. In those days godly men looked for visible judgments upon the...
_Saul had given Michal_ Probably he did it when David fled, to mark the completeness of the breach between them. David afterwards compelled Phalti (or _Phaltiel_) to restore him Michal (2 Samuel 3:15)...
_David's Wives._ 1 Samuel 25:39-44 39 And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed _be_ the Lord that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his ser...
_BUT SAUL HAD GIVEN MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER, DAVID'S WIFE, TO PHALTI THE SON OF LAISH, WHICH WAS OF GALLIM._ Michal. By the unchallengeable will of her father, she who was David's wife was given to anoth...
ISRAEL’S FIRST KING 1 SAMUEL _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 25 SAMUEL THE *PROPHET DIES V1 Samuel died. All the *Israelites met together and were very sad. Then they buried Samuel in his home town of Ra...
MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER. — The marriage of the Princess Michal to Phalti (Michal, we read, “loved David,” 1 Samuel 18:20) had taken place probably some time before. This high-handed act showed on the part...
וְ שָׁא֗וּל נָתַ֛ן אֶת ־מִיכַ֥ל בִּתֹּ֖ו אֵ֣ש
CHAPTER XXXII. _ DAVID AND NABAL._ 1 Samuel 25:1. WE should be forming far too low an estimate of the character of the people of Israel if we did not believe that they were very profoundly moved by...
THE END OF SELFISH INDULGENCE 1 Samuel 25:32 The lowly obeisance of this beautiful woman at the young soldier's feet, her frank confession of the injustice done him, her thankfulness that he had bee...
We now have the account of Samuel's death. Notwithstanding all Israel's failure to realize his high ideals, it was impossible that they should not recognize his greatness, and it is easy to believe th...
_Phalti, or Phaltiel, 2 Kings iii. 15. Saul violated all laws by so doing, and David took her back when he came to the throne, which he could not have done if he had given her a bill of divorce, Deute...
(40) And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spake unto her, saying, David sent us unto thee, to take thee to him to wife. (41) And she arose, and bowed herself on her face...
REFLECTIONS READER! let us not dismiss our review of this chapter, nor close the book which records the death of Samuel, without first paying due tribute to a memory so truly valuable. I would for onc...
We enter now on a portion of David's history sensibly different from what we have already had, which closed with the efforts of Jonathan to restore matters and to attach Saul to him at least openly. J...
At length Samuel dies. This forms an epoch, because he who was the true link between the people and God was gone. Israel acknowledged him when dead, although they had despised him while living. And no...
BUT SAUL HAD GIVEN MICHAL HIS DAUGHTER, DAVID'S WIFE, TO PHALTI THE SON OF LAISH,.... Or "for Saul", c. i which is a reason for his marrying again, but no reason for marrying more wives than one. Mich...
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim. Ver. 44. _But Saul had given Michel his daughter._] This he had done as out of pure spite to D...
1 Samuel dieth. 2 Dauid in Paran sendeth to Nabal. 10 Prouoked by Nabals churlishnesse, hee mindeth to destroy him. 14 Abigail vnderstanding thereof, 18 taketh a present, 23 and by her wisedome...
But Saul had given Michal, his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti, the son of Laish, which was of Gallim, a town between Gibeah and Jerusalem. Cf 2 Samuel 3:14 ff. Note: What the believers do good to e...
DAVID MARRIES ABIGAIL...
David's moral victory over Saul and over his own natural instincts has been most admirable. However, in this chapter we see him showing just the opposite attitude. It seems hardly possible that this c...
39-44 Abigail believed that David would be king over Israel, and greatly esteemed his pious and excellent character. She deemed his proposal of marriage honourable, and advantageous to her, notwithsta...
BUT, or _for_, as the Hebrew _vau_ is ofttimes used. For this seems to be added as a reason why David took other wives, because Saul had given his former wife to another man, that he might as far as h...
1 Samuel 25:44 Saul H7586 given H5414 (H8804) Michal H4324 daughter H1323 Davids H1732 wife H802 Palti H6406 son
DAVID, HAVING LOST HIS WIFE THROUGH SAUL'S CONNIVING, RECEIVES TWO WIVES IN HER PLACE (25:39C-44). Once David had fled from Saul he became an outlaw. Thus Saul considered that his marriage to Michal...
CONTENTS: Samuel's death; David and Nabal. Abigail becomes David's wife, and also Ahinoam. CHARACTERS: God, David, Samuel, Nabal, Abigail. CONCLUSION: Let the believer be encouraged to commit his ca...
1 Samuel 25:1. _Samuel died,_ four months, say the rabbins, before the death of Saul. The elders of the nation from all the tribes attended, to behold the glory of a setting sun, which left its lustre...
1 SAMUEL—NOTE ON 1 SAMUEL 25:44 David had probably not seen his first wife, MICHAL, since she helped him escape from Saul in 1 Samuel 19:11....
CRITICAL AND EXPOSITORY NOTES— 1 Samuel 25:2. “MAON.” A city of Judah (Joshua 15:55), situated on a hill now called _Tell Main_, about seven or eight miles south of Hebron. It is now in ruins. “CARMEL...
EXPOSITION DEATH OF SAMUEL (1 Samuel 25:1). 1 SAMUEL 25:1 AND SAMUEL DIED. According to Josephus, Samuel had for eighteen years been contemporaneous with Saul's kingdom. If this calculation, which p...
Now Samuel died; and all of the Israelites were gathered together, and lamenting him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there wa...
1 Samuel 18:20; 1 Samuel 18:27; 2 Samuel 3:14; Isaiah 10:30...