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Tim Maas
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One possibility that occurs to me is that, since David shared his home with his wife Michal (who was Saul's daughter), perhaps the idol was a vestige or remnant of her upbringing in Saul's household, and part of the behavior on Saul's part that led to God rejecting him and replacing him as king with David. Michal possibly saved it as a futile response to her own failure to give David a child. However, Michal herself also subsequently disrespected David for the manner in which he danced and leaped before the LORD when the Ark of the Covenant was brought back to Jerusalem, at which time the Bible itself says that Michal was condemned to childlessness (2 Samuel 6:16-23).
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