2Sa 3:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:13

13: "All right," David replied, "but I will not negotiate with you unless you bring back my wife Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come."

But Judah said, "The man wasn't joking when he warned that we couldn't see him again unless Benjamin came along.

But you told us, `You may not see me again unless your youngest brother is with you.'

When Abner came to Hebron with his twenty men, David entertained them with a great feast.
Then Abner said to David, "Let me go and call all the people of Israel to your side. They will make a covenant with you to make you their king. Then you will be able to rule over everything your heart desires." So David sent Abner safely on his way.
But just after Abner left, Joab and some of David's troops returned from a raid, bringing much plunder with them.
When Joab was told that Abner had just been there visiting the king and had been sent away in safety,

Then Saul sent troops to watch David's house. They were told to kill David when he came out the next morning. But Michal, David's wife, warned him, "If you don't get away tonight, you will be dead by morning."
So she helped him climb out through a window, and he escaped.
Then she took an idol and put it in his bed, covered it with blankets, and put a cushion of goat's hair at its head.
When the troops came to arrest David, she told them he was sick and couldn't get out of bed.
"Then bring him to me in his bed," Saul ordered, "so I can kill him as he lies there!" And he sent them back to David's house.

But as the Ark of the LORD's covenant entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David dancing and leaping for joy, she was filled with contempt for him.

In the meantime, Saul's daughter Michal had fallen in love with David, and Saul was delighted when he heard about it.
"Here's another chance to see him killed by the Philistines!" Saul said to himself. But to David he said, "I have a way for you to become my son-in-law after all!"
Then Saul told his men to say confidentially to David, "The king really likes you, and so do we. Why don't you accept the king's offer and become his son-in-law?"
When Saul's men said these things to David, he replied, "How can a poor man from a humble family afford the bride price for the daughter of a king?"
When Saul's men reported this back to the king,

we replied, `We can't unless you let our youngest brother go with us. We won't be allowed to see the man in charge of the grain unless our youngest brother is with us.'

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