2 Samuel 3:14

14 Também enviou Davi mensageiros a Isbosete, filho de Saul, dizendo: Entrega-me minha mulher Mical, que eu desposei por cem prepúcios de filisteus.

2 Samuel 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 3:14

And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son
When Abner's messengers returned to him, and acquainted him with the condition of David's entering into a league with him, it is highly probable that Abner sent them or others to David, to let him know that he could not do this of himself; that it was advisable for him to write to Ishbosheth, whose sister she was, and demand her of him; and that then he would use his interest with Ishbosheth to grant it, and this method David took:

saying, deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an
hundred foreskins of the Philistines;
two arguments he made use of to enforce his demand; one is, that it was his wife he required, to whom he had a right, and no other man; and the other is, that he had purchased her at a great expense, at the risk of his life, in slaying an hundred Philistines, whose foreskins he paid in for her at the instance of Saul; he mentions but one hundred, though he gave two hundred as her dowry, no more being required than one hundred; see ( 1 Samuel 18:25 1 Samuel 18:27 ) . Josephus very wrongly says six hundred ^F2; the Syriac and Arabic have here two hundred.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Antiqu. l 7. c. 1. sect. 4.

2 Samuel 3:14 In-Context

12 Então enviou Abner da sua parte mensageiros a Davi, dizendo: De quem é a terra? Comigo faze a tua aliança, e eis que a minha mão será contigo, para fazer tornar a ti todo o Israel.

13 Respondeu Davi: Está bem; farei aliança contigo; mas uma coisa te exijo; não verás a minha face, se primeiro não me trouxeres Mical, filha de Saul, quando vieres ver a minha face.

14 Também enviou Davi mensageiros a Isbosete, filho de Saul, dizendo: Entrega-me minha mulher Mical, que eu desposei por cem prepúcios de filisteus.

15 Enviou, pois, Isbosete, e a tirou a seu marido, a Paltiel, filho de Laís,

16 que a seguia, chorando atrás dela até Baurim. Então lhe disse Abner: Vai-te; volta! E ele voltou.