There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

Michal, the daughter of King Saul, who gave her to David to be a snare to him: So Saul said, “I will give her to him, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall be my son-in-law today.” —1 SAMUEL 18:21 David’s wife, Michal, had her father’s DNA, as illustrated when David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem with dancing and singing. Michal’s response was to rebuke David for his expressive worship and to mock him in her heart (1 Chron. 15:29). Since David was a worshipper from his youth, his wife’s criticism of his worship cut into his spirit, and in return he cut her off from the physical marital bed, as she “had no children to the day of her death” (2 Sam. 6:23). From the moment she mocked him, she is not mentioned in the narrative of David’s life again. Thus, David’s marriage was not just in serious condition, but for all practical purposes it was dead. Now consider Bathsheba’s husband, Uriah. Few casual readers of Scripture know that Uriah was an important soldier in David’s army and listed as one of David’s “mighty men.” In 2 Samuel 23 there is a detailed list of men who surrounded David and became his personal army. The total number was six hundred, but among the sixhundred there were thirty-seven who were more superior than others in the group. Uriah the Hittite was listed as one of the thirty-seven (v. 39). This same Uriah was the husband of Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11:3). After David