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2 Samuel 6:16

Good News Translation

As 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.

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And David also sent messengers to Ishbosheth to say, “Give me back my wife Michal. I paid a hundred Philistine foreskins in order to marry her.”

But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as “David's City.”)

And so he and all the Israelites took the Covenant Box up to Jerusalem with shouts of joy and the sound of trumpets.

Afterward, when David went home to greet his family, Michal came out to meet him. “The king of Israel made a big name for himself today!” she said. “He exposed himself like a fool in the sight of the servant women of his officials!”

As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and leaping for joy, and she was disgusted with him.

Be merciful to us, Lord, be merciful; we have been treated with so much contempt.

It is for your sake that I have been insulted and that I am covered with shame.

We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him— we ignored him as if he were nothing.

But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!”

Whoever does not have the Spirit cannot receive the gifts that come from God's Spirit. Such a person really does not understand them, and they seem to be nonsense, because their value can be judged only on a spiritual basis.

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as your wife on condition that you serve me as a brave and loyal soldier, and fight the Lord's battles.” (Saul was thinking that in this way the Philistines would kill David, and he would not have to do it himself.)

Saul's daughter Michal, however, fell in love with David, and when Saul heard of this, he was pleased.




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