2 Samuel 3:14

14 Además, David envió unos mensajeros a decirle a Isboset hijo de Saúl: «Devuélveme a mi esposa Mical, por la que di a cambio cien prepucios de 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 unos mensajeros a decirle a David: «¿A quién le pertenece la tierra, si no a usted? Haga un pacto conmigo, y yo lo apoyaré para hacer que todo Israel se ponga de su parte».

13 «Muy bien —respondió David—. Haré un pacto contigo, pero con esta condición: Cuando vengas a verme, trae contigo a Mical hija de Saúl. De lo contrario, no te recibiré».

14 Además, David envió unos mensajeros a decirle a Isboset hijo de Saúl: «Devuélveme a mi esposa Mical, por la que di a cambio cien prepucios de filisteos».

15 Por tanto, Isboset mandó que se la quitaran a Paltiel hijo de Lais, que era su esposo,

16 pero Paltiel se fue tras ella, llorando por todo el camino hasta llegar a Bajurín. Allí Abner le ordenó que regresara, y Paltiel obedeció.