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David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I was given to marry for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
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Verse 14. Isboseth. Thus he would screen the perfidy of Abner, ( Menochius.) and hinder him from using any violence. Calmet.—The pacific king accedes immediately to the request, as he had no personal aversion to David, and saw that he was in a far more elevated condition than Phaltiel. Bible.—Moreover, this was no time to irritate him more, as Abner was discontented. Menochius.
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