Laish appears as the father of Paltiel (or Palti), the man to whom Saul gave his daughter Michal after David fled. This sets up the later painful scene in 2 Samuel 3:15 where David demands Michal's return, and Paltiel follows weeping. The name appears with textual variants (Ketiv and Qere differ in 2 Samuel 3:15), and the Septuagint offers widely varying transliterations. The personal drama of Michal's forced remarriage and retrieval gains pathos when we see Paltiel's father's name attached to this minor character who loved a woman he had to surrender.