²¹ So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, ^(A)who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the ^(B)people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord.

^14 (A)But now your kingdom shall not continue. ^(B)The Lord has sought for Himself a man ^(C)after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have ^(D)not kept what the Lord commanded you.”

²⁸ So Samuel said to him, ^(A)“The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.

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.

²² And ^(A)when He had removed him, ^(B)He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ^(C)‘I have found David the son of Jesse, ^(D)a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’

¹⁴ Then David ^(A)danced^[a] before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing ^(B)a linen ephod.

⁵ Then David and all the house of Israel ^(A)played music before the Lord on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.