Talmud for I Chronicles 3:3

⁸⁰A slightly shortened version is in Sanhedrin2:4, Notes 129–139. A different version is found in the last part of Num. rabba4. It is written: David returned to bless his house when Mikhal, Saul’s daughter, came towards him⁸¹2S. 6:20, where Michal criticizes David for dancing in the street.., etc. Who is one of the empty ones? Abba bar Cahana said, the most empty one, that is the dancer⁸²Greek ʼορχηστής, ου̅, ‘ο.. She told him, today the honor of my father’s house became obvious. One said about the family of Saul that one never saw a heel or a thumb of them. That is what is written: He came to the sheep fences along the road and there was a cave⁸³1S.24:3.. Rebbi Abun in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: That was a fence inside a fence⁸⁴This explains the plural used in the verse and shows that Saul went to relieve himself in the cave guarded from the outside by a double fence. In the Babli, Berakhot 62b, this is quoted as tannaitic text.. Saul came to spread his feet⁸³1S.24:3.. He saw him how he lifted a little and covered a little. [David] said, how could one touch such a righteous body. That is what he told him, behold, what your eyes saw today which today gave me in your hand in the cave and I could have killed you⁸⁵1S. 24:10., etc. Is it not written “I had mercy on you” but it had mercy on you⁸⁵1S. 24:10., your modesty had mercy on you. David told Michal, before the Eternal Who chose me over your father⁸⁶2S. 6:21., etc. And I was still humbler than this and I was lowly in my eyes, and with the servant girls you mentioned, with them I shall be honored⁸⁷2S. 6:22., for they are not servant girls but mothers. How was she punished? Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no child until the day of her death⁸⁸2S. 6:23, implying that she died in childbirth.. But is it not written: The sixth Yitre`am, of his wife Calf<sup>89</sup>2S. 3:5. Only Michal is called “David’s wife” (1S. 25:44). The problem that Yitre`am was born in Hebron is not addressed; it is discussed in the Babli, 21a.. She mooed like a calf and died.