Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, and put a quilt of goats' hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.Waitasec, what?!? A household idol? David, the man after God's own heart, had a household idol? What's going on here? I thought David did all right before God, except for Bathsheba. What is he doing with an idol in his home? I'm now very confused, and somewhat concerned.
The thing I have to wonder here is if it wasn't David's idol, but Michal's. We already know Saul wasn't particularly well-known for keeping to God's commands, so I can believe that he passed that apathy (or whatever you want to call it) along to his children. So maybe it was Michal's, but still, why did David permit it to stay? Why did he not get rid of it in order to keep his home pure? Maybe he was never home, or she kept it hidden? Yet another question about the perceived purity of God's "favorite" king.
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