David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh — who chose me over your father and his whole house, to appoint me ruler over Yahweh’s people, over Israel — that I danced before Yahweh.
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19and he gave out to all the people, to the whole crowd of Israel, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a raisin cake to every one of them. Then all the people went home, each to his own house. 20David went back to bless his own household, and Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has honoured himself today, exposing himself today before the eyes of the slave girls of his servants, as any vulgar man might shamelessly expose himself!” 21David said to Michal, “It was before Yahweh — who chose me over your father and his whole house, to appoint me ruler over Yahweh’s people, over Israel — that I danced before Yahweh. 22I will make myself even more undignified than this, and humble in my own eyes; but by the slave girls you speak of, I will be held in honour.” 23And Michal daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
