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Yea, if all sin must be abandoned, or the soul shall have no rest, why then the soul and sin will part with such a parting as it is even as Phaltiel parted with David's wife, with an ill-will and a sorrowful mind; or as Orpah left her mother, with a kiss. 2 Sam. 3:16; Ruth 1:14.
Poor Phaltiel followed her weeping, until ordered to go back and back he went, forever desolate. The scene recalled the brutal demand of his creditor upon his child. The Judge's eyes silently o'erflowed, and he could not see. Vesta had watched him closely, as her silent magistracy detected a great anxiety or illness in her father.
And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines. And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel the son of Laish. And her husband went with her along weeping behind her to Bahurim. Then said Abner unto him, Go, return. And he returned.
He suddenly came to a verse which arrested his sensibilities by its pathos: "'And David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal.... And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Phaltiel, the son of Laish. And her husband went with her along weeping behind her.... Then said Abner unto him: Go, return. And he returned."
So Abner took Michal from Phaltiel, who was then her husband, and sent her to David, Ishbosheth himself affording him his assistance, for David had written to him that of right he ought to have this his wife restored to him.
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