“Nobody ever said David’s multi-marital marathon was particularly God-pleasing.”
And yet Jesus is descended from David, via an action that y’all claim violates g*d’s law. That is a contradiction.
Regarding Michal, I’m losing your train of thought.
It's not a contradiction, but it IS a paradox.
I say it's not a "contradiction" because God patiently tolerates a lot of morally/ethically objectionable stuff, and by His sovereign providence brings good out of the sitruation anyway.
Rom. 8:26 - "And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Michal would have been David's one-and-only, his lawfully wedded wife, (and I'm told she's the only woman named in the Bible who is described as "loving" a man --- she really loved David) but apparently she wouldn't sleep with David after the dancing-with-the=Ark incident.
David ended up with 19 or 20 legitimate sons, none of them by Michal.
A Lot of stuff happened in the OT that wasn't quite kosher. Notice the four female ancestors of Jesus mentioned in the Matthew genealogy: Tamar (seduced her father-in-law); Rahab (a prostitute); Ruth (a Moabite who approached Boaz when he was drunk) and Bathsheba (an adulteress and complicit in the murder of her husband). Every one of them was at least a little morally, um...short of pristine...
Just because God tolerated something, doesn't mean He invented it, or ordered it, or willed it. He let it happen --- this is our liberty --- and He works it into the larger plan of good (this is His sovereignty!)