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14 David then sent this message to Ishbosheth, Saul’s son: “Give me back my wife Michal, for I bought her with the lives[a] of 100 Philistines.”

15 So Ishbosheth took Michal away from her husband, Palti[b] son of Laish. 16 Palti followed along behind her as far as Bahurim, weeping as he went. Then Abner told him, “Go back home!” So Palti returned.

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Footnotes

  1. 3:14 Hebrew the foreskins.
  2. 3:15 As in 1 Sam 25:44; Hebrew reads Paltiel, a variant spelling of Palti.

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