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A Heart Restored Michal's Story
A Heart Michal’s Story
is book eight in the Extraordinary Women of the Bible historical fiction series.
Michal, the youngest daughter of King Saul, is sure she has found love with the handsome David, who defeated the giant Goliath and has grown into a mighty warrior. Despite her father’s wariness toward David, he agrees to their marriage, and Michal is positive that she has found her happily ever after.
But Michal slowly comes to realize that David has more than love on his mind. He knows that God has chosen him as Saul’s successor—but only if he survives Saul’s attempts on his life. After Michal helps David escape her father, he abandons her, leaving her to face an uncertain future. Can Michal trust God to take care of her when her whole world is turned upside down?
Michal, the youngest daughter of King Saul, is sure she has found love with the handsome David, who defeated the giant Goliath and has grown into a mighty warrior. Despite her father’s wariness toward David, he agrees to their marriage, and Michal is positive that she has found her happily ever after.
But Michal slowly comes to realize that David has more than love on his mind. He knows that God has chosen him as Saul’s successor—but only if he survives Saul’s attempts on his life. After Michal helps David escape her father, he abandons her, leaving her to face an uncertain future. Can Michal trust God to take care of her when her whole world is turned upside down?
259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2024
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February 26, 2025
The story of Michal
It is true, there is not much about Michal in the Bible. We know that she is King Saul’s daughter, and becomes King David’s wife, before he becomes King. She is a person that we do not know much about. Beth Adams did a wonderful job in creating more about her, taking what is known and expanding on it. Thereby creating a wonderful story! Thank you!
It is true, there is not much about Michal in the Bible. We know that she is King Saul’s daughter, and becomes King David’s wife, before he becomes King. She is a person that we do not know much about. Beth Adams did a wonderful job in creating more about her, taking what is known and expanding on it. Thereby creating a wonderful story! Thank you!
December 17, 2024
Very good, there is a Bible verse that said that Saul thought that giving David Michal was almost getting back at David still. Implying that Michal held an attitude that he thought would trouble David.
Idk how but I think it would have been interesting to have read that worked into the story somehow.
Aside from that minor detail… it was a great book. I literally could NOT put it down.
Idk how but I think it would have been interesting to have read that worked into the story somehow.
Aside from that minor detail… it was a great book. I literally could NOT put it down.
November 7, 2025
I Was Puzzled By The Title
I had never really had a positive opinion of Michal's character based on my interpretation of the scripture describing her. I'll admit that I allowed her words against David to make her out as a bad wife that did not love the Lord as David apparently did.
Now, I was not so kind toward David when his great ball of sins were revealed either. But, I did allow the recorded repentance of David to soften my heart toward the man after god's own heart.
If Michal had been a woman after god's own heart, I figured it would have been recorded in scripture. But it was not. But that was not my place to judge now was it?
What I lived about this story was that my heart was made to soften towards a woman that was the daughter of a king and wife of the mighty King David. I was permitted to see a woman abandoned, replaced, sold, and stolen. I saw a woman with no control of her life or the ability to choose. I saw a woman who had been made to feel used for her father's gain and her first husband's gain as well. She was recorded as loving David but never was it recorded that David loved her. As a girl and woman I just assumed he did.
But why didn't he send for her?
Where was his love for her as he had taken four other wives and allowed them to live with him and his army as he evaded King Saul and visited with her brother, Jonathan? Why was she only retrieved after Abner promised to give him all of Israel? Was she seen as someone that Israel would approve of as his wife because she was the daughter of Saul? Was she seen as a way for David to receive approval from Israel who denied him as their King while the southern tribe of Judah had declared him King for the past seven years.? Saul had been dead and there was no danger for Michal from her weak and scared brother if he had called for her to be returned to him.
This story opened my heart to feel the betrayal Michal had been subjected to as a mere woman required to obey her father and unable to control the choices of her husband. I was allowed to see her fall in love with a man that obviously loved her dearly and feel the bitter sting of once again having no choice in having a say in what she wanted. I was allowed to see how she could have been made to feel like property instead of a priceless daughter of the most high God. I was able to feel empathy and compassion towards a woman that I never felt any kindness towards.
I was glad to have the judgment I had held toward a woman I never knew revealed to be a sin between me and God so that I could repent and ask for forgiveness.
It may just so happen that Michal was a bitter woman in the recorded words of scripture written about her but that was not her in her entirety. She was and is created in God's image as we all are and that accounts for more of who she is than my thoughts of her.
Thank you God that fictional biblical stories can be used to convict my heart and allow me to repent before it is too late.
Please read this beautifully written book and allow God to be the only author of truth in your life... not personal judgement based on your flawed knowledge of people.
I had never really had a positive opinion of Michal's character based on my interpretation of the scripture describing her. I'll admit that I allowed her words against David to make her out as a bad wife that did not love the Lord as David apparently did.
Now, I was not so kind toward David when his great ball of sins were revealed either. But, I did allow the recorded repentance of David to soften my heart toward the man after god's own heart.
If Michal had been a woman after god's own heart, I figured it would have been recorded in scripture. But it was not. But that was not my place to judge now was it?
What I lived about this story was that my heart was made to soften towards a woman that was the daughter of a king and wife of the mighty King David. I was permitted to see a woman abandoned, replaced, sold, and stolen. I saw a woman with no control of her life or the ability to choose. I saw a woman who had been made to feel used for her father's gain and her first husband's gain as well. She was recorded as loving David but never was it recorded that David loved her. As a girl and woman I just assumed he did.
But why didn't he send for her?
Where was his love for her as he had taken four other wives and allowed them to live with him and his army as he evaded King Saul and visited with her brother, Jonathan? Why was she only retrieved after Abner promised to give him all of Israel? Was she seen as someone that Israel would approve of as his wife because she was the daughter of Saul? Was she seen as a way for David to receive approval from Israel who denied him as their King while the southern tribe of Judah had declared him King for the past seven years.? Saul had been dead and there was no danger for Michal from her weak and scared brother if he had called for her to be returned to him.
This story opened my heart to feel the betrayal Michal had been subjected to as a mere woman required to obey her father and unable to control the choices of her husband. I was allowed to see her fall in love with a man that obviously loved her dearly and feel the bitter sting of once again having no choice in having a say in what she wanted. I was allowed to see how she could have been made to feel like property instead of a priceless daughter of the most high God. I was able to feel empathy and compassion towards a woman that I never felt any kindness towards.
I was glad to have the judgment I had held toward a woman I never knew revealed to be a sin between me and God so that I could repent and ask for forgiveness.
It may just so happen that Michal was a bitter woman in the recorded words of scripture written about her but that was not her in her entirety. She was and is created in God's image as we all are and that accounts for more of who she is than my thoughts of her.
Thank you God that fictional biblical stories can be used to convict my heart and allow me to repent before it is too late.
Please read this beautifully written book and allow God to be the only author of truth in your life... not personal judgement based on your flawed knowledge of people.
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