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2 Samuel 6:20-23
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20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house,[a] Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him.[b] She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished[c] himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool[d] might do!”

21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family[e] and appointed me as leader over the Lord’s people Israel. 22 I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this.[f] But with the slave girls whom you mentioned, let me be distinguished.” 23 Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

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  1. 2 Samuel 6:20 tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”
  2. 2 Samuel 6:20 tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
  3. 2 Samuel 6:20 tn Heb “honored.”
  4. 2 Samuel 6:20 tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”
  5. 2 Samuel 6:21 tn Heb “all his house”; CEV “anyone else in your family.”
  6. 2 Samuel 6:22 tn Heb “and I will shame myself still more than this and I will be lowly in my eyes.”
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2 Samuel 6:20-23
Lexham English Bible

20 When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today by uncovering himself[a] before the eyes of the maids of his servants, as the total exposure of a worthless one.”[b] 21 So David said to Michal, “In the presence of Yahweh who chose me over[c] your father and over[d] his household, to appoint me as leader over the people of Yahweh, over Israel, I have celebrated before Yahweh. 22 I will demean myself again more than this, and I will be abased in my eyes, but with the maids whom you mentioned, with them I will be honored.” 23 So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death.

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  1. 2 Samuel 6:20 Literally “who has uncovered himself”
  2. 2 Samuel 6:20 Literally “as the total uncovering of one of the worthless”
  3. 2 Samuel 6:21 Literally “more than”
  4. 2 Samuel 6:21 Literally “more than”
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