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New Testament
2 Samuel 6:12-23
12David was told, “Because of the Ark of God, the Lord has blessed the house of Obed Edom and all that belongs to him.”[]
With rejoicing, David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed Edom to the City of David. 13When those carrying the Ark of the Lord had gone six paces, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. 14David danced with all his might before the Lord. He was wearing a linen vest. 15David and the entire house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of a ram's horn.
16When the Ark of the Lord arrived at the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked out 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 that David had pitched for it, and David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18When David finished presenting the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Armies. 19He distributed one loaf of bread, one cake of dates,[] and one cake of raisins to all the people, to the whole crowd from Israel, to men and women, to each and every person. Then all the people left. All of them went to their own houses, 20and David returned to bless his house.
Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David. She said, “How the king of Israel has brought honor to himself today by exposing himself in the sight of his female servants, just as a vulgar person exposes himself!”
21David said to Michal, “I did this before the Lord, who chose me above your father and all his house, when he appointed me leader over the people of the Lord, over Israel. I will rejoice before the Lord, 22and I will make myself even more lowly than this. I will be humble in my own eyes, but among the servant girls you have spoken about, among them I will be honored.”
23Michal, the daughter of Saul, had no child to the day of her death.