rupture between Saul and David had become open and incurable, she was married to another man,
Phalti or Phaltiel of Gallim. (1 Samuel 25:44) After the death of her father and brothers at Gilboa,
David compelled her new husband to surrender Michal to him. (2 Samuel 3:13-16) How Michal
comported herself in the altered circumstances of David’s household we are not told; but it is plain
from the subsequent occurrences that something had happened to alter the relations of herself and
David, for on the day of David’s greatest triumph, when he brought the ark of Jehovah to Jerusalem,
we are told that “she despised him in her heart.” All intercourse between her and David ceased
from that date. (2 Samuel 6:20-23) Her name appears, (2 Samuel 21:8) as the mother of five of the
grandchildren of Saul.
Michmas Or Michmash
(hidden), a town which is known to us almost solely by its connection with the Philistine war
of Saul and Jonathan. (1 Samuel 13:1; 1 Samuel 14:1) ... It has been identified with great probability
in a village which still bears the name of Mukhmas, about seven miles north of Jerusalem. The
place was thus situated in the very middle of the tribe of Benjamin. In the invasion of Sennacherib
in the reign of Hezekiah, it is mentioned by Isaiah. (Isaiah 10:28) After the captivity the man of
the place returned. (Ezra 2:27; Nehemiah 7:31) At a later date it became the residence of Jonathan
Maccabaeus and the seat of his government. 1 Macc. 9:73. In the time of Eusebius and Jerome it
was “a very large village, retaining its ancient name, and lying near Ramah in the district of AElia
(Jerusalem), at ten miles distance therefrom.” Immediately below the village the great wady spreads
out to a considerable width—perhaps half a mile; and its bed is broken up into an intricate mass of
hummocks and mounds, two of which, before the torrents of three thousand winters had reduced
and rounded their forms, were probably the two “teeth of cliff”—the Bozes and Seneh of Jonathan’s
adventure.
Michmethah
(hiding-place), a place which formed one of the landmarks of the boundary of the territories of
Ephraim and Manasseh on the western side of Jordan. (Joshua 17:7) The position of the place must
be somewhere on the east of and not far distant from Shechem.
Michri
(worthy of price), ancestor of Elah, one of the heads of the fathers of Benjamin. (1 Chronicles
9:8)
Michtam
(golden psalm). This word occurs in the titles of six psalms (16,56-60), all of which are ascribed
to David. The marginal reading of our Authorized Version is “a golden psalm,” while in the Geneva
version it is described as “a certain tune.” From the position which it occupies in the title we may
infer that michtam is a term applied to these psalms to denote their musical character, but beyond
this everything is obscure.
Middin
(measures), a city of Judah, (Joshua 15:61) one of the six specified as situated in the district of
“the midbar” (Authorized Version “wilderness”).
Midian
(strife), a son of Abraham and Keturah, (Genesis 25:2; 1 Chronicles 1:32) progenitor of the
Midianites, or Arabians dwelling principally in the desert north of the peninsula of Arabia. Southward
they extended along the eastern shore of the Gulf of Eyleh (Sinus AElaniticus); and northward they
stretched along the eastern frontier of Palestine. The “land of Midian,” the place to which Moses
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