David’s Marriage to Michal

²⁰ Now Saul’s daughter Michal^(A) loved David, and when it was reported to Saul, it pleased him.

²⁷ David and his men went out and killed two hundred^[a] Philistines. He brought their foreskins and presented them as full payment to the king to become his son-in-law. Then Saul gave his daughter Michal to David as his wife.^(A)

¹² So she lowered David from the window, and he fled and escaped.^(A)

²⁰ When David returned home to bless his household,^(A) 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, “It was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel.^(B) I will dance before the Lord, ²² and I will dishonor myself and humble myself even more.^[a][b] However, by the slave girls you spoke about, I will be honored.” ²³ And Saul’s daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.