13
"Great," said David. "It's a deal. But only on one condition: You're not welcome here unless you bring Michal, Saul's daughter, with you when you come to meet me."
14
David then sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul: "Give me back Michal, whom I won as my wife at the cost of a hundred Philistine foreskins."
15
Ish-Bosheth ordered that she be taken from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.
16
But Paltiel followed her, weeping all the way, to Bahurim. There Abner told him, "Go home." And he went home.
17
Abner got the elders of Israel together and said, "Only yesterday, it seems, you were looking for a way to make David your king.
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