2 Samuel 6:14–22

¹⁴Wearing a linen ephod,^s David was dancing^t before the Lord with all his might, ¹⁵while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts^u and the sound of trumpets.^v

¹⁶As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David,^w Michal^x daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it,^y and David sacrificed burnt offerings^z and fellowship offerings before the Lord. ¹⁸After he had finished sacrificing^a the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed^b the people in the name of the Lord Almighty. ¹⁹Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins^c to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women.^d And all the people went to their homes.

²⁰When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked^e in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”

²¹David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed^f me ruler^g over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. ²²I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”