16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, (A)Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

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16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David,(A) Michal(B) daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.

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14 (A)But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God(A) but considers them foolishness,(B) and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

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29 And it happened, (A)as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in her heart.

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29 As the ark of the covenant of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David dancing and celebrating, she despised him in her heart.

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13 Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”

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13 Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”(A)

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Because for Your sake I have borne reproach;
Shame has covered my face.

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For I endure scorn(A) for your sake,(B)
    and shame covers my face.(C)

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14 So David sent messengers to (A)Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself (B)for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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14 Then David sent messengers to Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, demanding, “Give me my wife Michal,(A) whom I betrothed to myself for the price of a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

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(A)He is despised and [a]rejected by men,
A Man of [b]sorrows and (B)acquainted with [c]grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and (C)we did not esteem Him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 53:3 Or forsaken
  2. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. pains
  3. Isaiah 53:3 Lit. sickness

He was despised and rejected by mankind,
    a man of suffering,(A) and familiar with pain.(B)
Like one from whom people hide(C) their faces
    he was despised,(D) and we held him in low esteem.

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