David’s Marriage to Michal

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

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  1. 1 Samuel 18:20 Lit Saul, the thing was right in his eyes

27 David and his men went out and killed 200[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)

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  1. 1 Samuel 18:27 LXX reads 100

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

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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, “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.(B) I will celebrate before the Lord, 22 and I will humble myself even more and humiliate myself.[b][c] I will be honored by the slave girls you spoke about.” 23 And Saul’s daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.

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  1. 2 Samuel 6:21 LXX; MT omits I was dancing
  2. 2 Samuel 6:22 LXX reads more and I will be humble in your eyes
  3. 2 Samuel 6:22 Lit more and I will be humble in my own eyes

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