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Michal Brook
Michal is a Hebrew name meaning brook, said me-kawl'. Saul's daughter and David's first wife, who let him down out of a window to save his life.
Where the name comes from
מִיכָל Mîykâl — Mikal, Saul's daughter. Strong's H4324 derives it: apparently the same as H4323 (מִיכָל); revulet.
Michal in Scripture
The name appears in 17 verses, first at 1 Samuel 14:49.
1 Samuel 14:49 · KJV
Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishui, and Melchishua: and the names of his two daughters were these; the name of the firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1 Samuel 18:20 · KJV
And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Samuel 18:27 · KJV
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king’s son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.
1 Samuel 18:28 · KJV
And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
1 Samuel 19:11 · KJV
Saul also sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David’s wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
1 Samuel 19:12 · KJV
So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
1 Samuel 19:13 · KJV
And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats’ hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
1 Samuel 19:17 · KJV
And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
1 Samuel 25:44 · KJV
But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which was of Gallim.
2 Samuel 3:13 · KJV
And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul’s daughter, when thou comest to see my face.
2 Samuel 3:14 · KJV
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul’s son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
2 Samuel 6:16 · KJV
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
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