with the following verse: And I will sport before Yahweh, and will be yet more lightly esteemed than this, and will be lowly in thine eyes. But of the maids of whom thou hast spoken I shall surely be held in honour] the king trusts the sense of the common people to understand his religious zeal. As for Michal’s opinion he does not value it.—23. The natural understanding is that the estrangement was the reason for Michal’s childlessness—not that she was stricken with barrenness by Yahweh, as some
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