Christian Huff
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and thought, oh, we'll try the old Saul trick with his situation with Uriah.
But either way, I think it shows you that Saul is manipulating
the David situation for him to hold on to power, which kind of becomes, I think, the underlying theme of this entire section that he gets into, including the daughter.
Because remember, the daughter was promised, but it wasn't this daughter.
It was another daughter, right?
It wasn't the first daughter.
It wasn't Michael originally, but Michael loved David.
And he said something I had never known before.
I don't know if this surprised you guys, that this is the only time in the Hebrew Bible where a woman...
Loves first.
I was just about to say that.
Yeah, what about that?
That's pretty wild when you think about it.
The only time she's like the first one to say, you know, the way he put it, how did he put it?
It was a phrase, he said it.
She has agency.
Uh-huh.
The only time in Hebrew where the female has agency.
Where the female had agency.
Well, and part of that is probably, I mean, I can't imagine ancient history with so many arranged marriages.