Meaning of MICAL

"Who is like God?" She was the youngest daughter of King Saul (1 Sam. 14:49). When Saul, backing away from his oath, refused his eldest daughter Merab to David, she learned of Michal's love for the young hero; She then decided to give him the youngest of her, on condition that she kill a hundred Philistines.

David got Michal (1 Sam. 18:27, 28); she later helped him escape from Saul's machinations. In David's absence, having fled from the king's wrath, her father married her to another man, betraying her obligations to David (1 Sam. 25:44).

Abner, general of Ish-bosheth, allied himself with David, who demanded the return of Michal (2 Sam. 3:15). When David returned the ark to Jerusalem, he entered dancing with it, carried away with pious enthusiasm; Mical sarcastically reproached her for an attitude that she considered humiliating.

David replied that he had humbled himself before Jehovah, that he would continue to do so, and that his own servants would honor the king. Michal died childless (2 Sam. 6:1423).

Concerning the sons of Michal mentioned in 2 Sam. 21:8, they were evidently her sister Merab's (cp. the above passage with 1 Sam. 18:19). Here she must have made a copyist's error, as the evidence of some mss suggests. Hebrews.