1 Samuel 18:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

1 Samuel 18:20 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 18:28
And Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

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Anger Cruelty Fasting Gentleness Hatred Heart Humiliation and Self-Affliction Humility

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-30)

Saul had now, in effect, proclaimed war with David. He began in open hostility when he threw the javelin at him. Now we are here told how his enmity proceeded, and how David received the attacks of it. I. See how Saul expressed his malice against David. 1. He was afraid of him, 1 Sam. 18:12. Perhaps he pretended to be afraid that David would do himself mischief, to force his way to the crown. Thos…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 20)

20. Michal Saul’s daughter loved David--This must have happened some time after. they told Saul, and the thing pleased him--Not from any favor to David, but he saw that it would be turned to the advancement of his malicious purposes, and the more so when, by the artful intrigues and flattery of his spies, the loyal sentiments of David were discovered.