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14 So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “[a]Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was [b]betrothed for [the price of] a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.” 15 So Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish [to whom Saul had given her]. 16 But her husband went with her, weeping continually behind her as far as Bahurim. Then Abner told him, “Go, return.” And he did so.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 3:14 Saul promised Michal to David as his wife. See 1 Sam 18:25-27.
  2. 2 Samuel 3:14 I.e. a legal and binding promise of marriage.

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