{"id":5969,"date":"2015-06-16T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2015-06-16T14:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:08:51","slug":"2samuel-218","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/5969\/2samuel-218\/","title":{"rendered":"2Samuel 21:8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

In this verse f\u200brom\u200b \u200b2Samuel, it speaks of Michal\u200b \u200b(Saul’s daughter who despised David for dancing before the LORD) bringing \u200bup \u200bchildren for \u200bAdriel \u200bthe son of Barzil\u200bl\u200bai.\u200b\u00a0 \u200bWould it have been customary for the king\u200b’\u200bs wife to do this? \u200b \u200bI was thinking maybe also David had mercy on Michal and allowed her to raise these children. \u200b \u200bThen I thought maybe that was part of the punishment from God for her hard heart and her pride. \u200b \u200bIt would have been hard for her to have them given up for death after raising them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seems a little odd that she would raise children after being shunned for conceiving children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just wanted to see if you have any information or thoughts on this?<\/span><\/p>\n

Beth<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200b===========<\/span><\/p>\n

Hi Beth,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Those children were Michal’s five sons that she had by Adriel during her years of separation from David, after Saul gave her to Adriel instead of David (1Sam. 18:19).\u00a0 She was not the king’s wife when she was given to Adriel.\u00a0 She was the wife of an outlaw, in King Saul’s eyes.\u00a0 Her marriage to David had been annulled, so to speak, by Saul, and she became Adriel’s wife.\u00a0 When David became king, he demanded that Michal be given back to him, and she was.\u00a0 later, he executed those five sons of Michal (2Sam. 21:1-9).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor John, In this verse f\u200brom\u200b \u200b2Samuel, it speaks of Michal\u200b \u200b(Saul’s daughter who despised David for dancing before the LORD) bringing \u200bup \u200bchildren for \u200bAdriel \u200bthe son of Barzil\u200bl\u200bai.\u200b\u00a0 \u200bWould it have been customary for the king\u200b’\u200bs wife to do this? \u200b \u200bI was thinking maybe also David had mercy on Michal and allowed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}