2 Samuel 3:14

14 Y David envió mensajeros a Is-boset, el hijo de Saúl, diciendo: Dame a mi mujer Mical, con la cual me desposé por cien prepucios de los filisteos.

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 Entonces Abner envió mensajeros a David de su parte, diciendo: ¿De quién es la tierra? Y que dijeran también: Haz tu pacto conmigo, y he aquí, mi mano será contigo para traer a ti a todo Israel.

13 Y él respondió: Muy bien. Haré pacto contigo, pero una cosa demando de ti: No verás mi rostro a menos de que cuando vengas a verme traigas a Mical, la hija de Saúl.

14 Y David envió mensajeros a Is-boset, el hijo de Saúl, diciendo: Dame a mi mujer Mical, con la cual me desposé por cien prepucios de los filisteos.

15 Is-boset, pues, envió a quitársela a su marido, a Paltiel, hijo de Lais.

16 Pero su marido fue con ella, llorando mientras iba, y la siguió hasta Bahurim. Entonces Abner le dijo: Ve, vuélvete. Y él se volvió.