2 Samuel 6:19-21

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁹ Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women.^(A) Then all the people left, each to his own home.

²⁰ When David returned home to bless his household,^(B) Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel honored himself today!” she said. “He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.”

²¹ David replied to Michal, “I was dancing^[a] before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel.^(C) I will celebrate before the Lord,