2 Samuel 6:20-23

David and Michal

20 And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, p uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the q vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!" 21 And David said to Michal, "It was before the Lord, r who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the Lord - and I will make merry before the Lord. 22 I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your 1 eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." 23 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

  1. Cross References
    2 Samuel 6:14
    And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.
    2 Samuel 6:16
    As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
    1 Samuel 19:24
    And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, "Is Saul also among the prophets?
  2. Cross References
    Judges 9:4
    And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
  3. Cross References
    1 Samuel 13:14
    But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you.
    1 Samuel 15:28
    And Samuel said to him, "The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.
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