14. Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ishbosheth to say, “Give me my wife Michal. I made a payment of 100 Philistine foreskins for her.”
15. So Ishbosheth sent men to take her from her husband Paltiel, son of Laish.
16. Her husband went with her and cried over her all the way to Bahurim. “Go home,” Abner told him. So he went home.
17. Meanwhile, Abner sent the following message to the leaders of Israel: “For some time now you’ve wanted to make David your king.
18. Do it now, because the Lord said about David: ‘I will save my people Israel from the Philistines and all their other enemies through my servant David.’”
19. Abner also spoke specifically to the people of Benjamin.Then Abner went directly to David in Hebron to tell him everything Israel and the entire tribe of Benjamin had approved.