2Sa 3:12-16

Then Abner sent messengers to David in his place, saying,
“Whose is the land? Make your covenant with me, and behold,
my hand shall be with you to bring all Israel over to you.”

He said, “Good! I will make a covenant with you,
but I demand one thing of you, namely,
you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter,
when you come to see me.”

So David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying,
“Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

Ish-bosheth sent and took her from her husband, from Paltiel the son of Laish.

But her husband went with her, weeping as he went, and followed her as far as Bahurim.
Then Abner said to him, “Go, return.” So he returned.

Abner sent messengers to initiate a conversation.
Abner wanted a covenant with David.
The purpose was to bring all of Israel under King David.

David agreed.
With one caveat.

David wanted his wife back.
He wanted Michal, Saul’s daughter.
You remember the account.
Of course, one would ask…”who wants her?”
Did David not have enough wives?

David likely wanted her back, but it was a power move above all things.

Saul had “married her off” to someone else.
David wanted her back.
He demanded this of Ish-bosheth the king of Israel.
Ish-bosheth immediately acquiesced.
Micahl’s husband followed her heart broken.
Abner told him to go home.
He did.

The collateral damage of political intrigue is always more than we think.
In governmental politics…be it of man or of “the church”.

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