Yesterday I mentioned Tania Turea as a bad example. Here is another. Michal despised David. for he was dancing and she considered this beneath the dignity of a king. But she suffered this fate: she had no children. The royal line passed through the daughter of Bathsheba.
And David, like his forefather Israel, fought (and danced) with all his heart, not caring for what the audience said.
12It was told King David, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing; 13and when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. 14David danced before the LORD with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod. 15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
16As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
17They brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the LORD. 18When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the offerings of well-being, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts, 19and distributed food among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people went back to their homes.
20David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honoured himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!” 21David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me in place of your father and all his household, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD, that I have danced before the LORD. 22I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in my own eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honour.” 23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
22The same night he got up and took his two wives, his two maids, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23He took them and sent them across the stream, and likewise everything that he had. 24Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. 25When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket; and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. 26Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” 27So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” 28Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans, and have prevailed.” 29Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. 30So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.” 31The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip.
The contempt of the masculine ends with weeds like this pseudo communist. Marked, fluid, effete, and only worthy of mockery. This what neither David nor Israel. Men would be better to imitate them.
And women not listen to the whispers that let her despise their husband. For that fate is the one of Michal: alone with her cats.
Worth remembering is what Michal used to hide the fact that David had left when Saul started to chase him; an idol. I infer that she may have been a pagan, which would explain a lot about her indifferent attitude towards the return of the Ark to Jerusalem. She loved him then enough to stand between him and Saul, but I wonder if she turned against David when he took her away from her second husband and put her in a harem with a bunch of other women.