2 Samuel 6:12–19

¹²It was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing.^{c 13}When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.^{d 14}David was dancing^D with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.^{e 15}He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the trumpet. ¹⁶As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David,^f Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it.^g Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord’s presence. ¹⁸When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Armies. ¹⁹Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women.^h Then all the people went home.