AS DAVID DANCED, MICHAL
SCORNED
BY DR. MERVYN ABREO
As David danced in Jehovah’s sight,
Michal scorned him with all her might,
Before the King of Kings!
(2
Samuel 6:16).
The question we have to ask ourselves
is:
Was Michal justified in what she did?
And was King David justified in
dancing before God after what he had done to his wife Michal?
So
let us look at the whole drama from the viewpoint of Michal, David and God!
MICHAL: She
loved David from her very youth. She became his wife and when
her father, the then king Saul, sent soldiers to capture David, she saved her husband by lying that
he was still in bed while he made good his escape.
During
the years that David was on the run, he married other women. While the lonely Michal also
remarried and had children from her second husband and was very happy with her
new family.
DAVID: When he
became king, though he had several wives, his first demand was that Michal be
brought to him, even though her husband went crying after the carriage which was carrying
his wife away from him.
Not
satisfied with a few wives, David took four hundred wives besides the three
hundred concubines he possessed.
GOD: He loved
David like a favorite son. He had him anointed when he was just a young
shepherd and was thrilled when David, filled with righteous anger because
Goliath had blasphemed Him, slew the giant in combat.
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David
fully trusted God while on the run from king Saul, never taking the king’s life
even when he had the opportunity to do so. (1 Samuel 24:12,13).
David
never defected to Israel’s enemies but killed them whenever he got the
opportunity.
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When he became king, the first thing he did
was to send gifts to the leaders of Israel, emulating Abraham who had sent tithes
to Melchzedek. He was a man after God’s own heart. He openly confessed his sin
with Bathsheba, with one of the most renowned Psalm, ‘Have mercy on me oh Lord.’
God forgave David but made him pay for the wrongs he did.
God
was pleased when David brought the Arc back into the city. And it was on this
occasion that David, overflowing with joy, danced half naked before his Creator. And Michal
laughed at him, thereby scorning him as well as God!
We
should never lose sight of the fact that the Lord is both a just as well as a
merciful God! He had forgiven David. And David forgave his wife and slept with
her. But God was displeased because she never conceived, which was a sign of
disgrace.
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