2 Samuel 6:12–19

¹²King David heard that because of the Covenant Box the Lord had blessed Obed Edom’s family and all that he had; so he fetched the Covenant Box from Obed’s house to take it to Jerusalem with a great celebration. ¹³After the men carrying the Covenant Box had gone six steps, David made them stop while he offered the Lord a sacrifice of a bull and a fattened calf. ¹⁴David, wearing only a linen cloth round his waist, danced with all his might to honour the Lord. ¹⁵And so he and all the Israelites took the Covenant Box up to Jerusalem with shouts of joy and the sound of trumpets.

¹⁶As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him. ¹⁷They brought the Box and put it in its place in the Tent that David had set up for it. Then he offered sacrifices and fellowship offerings to the Lord. ¹⁸When he had finished offering the sacrifices, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord Almighty ^19*and distributed food to them all. He gave each man and woman in Israel a loaf of bread, a piece of roasted meat,^m and some raisins. Then everyone went home.