David’s Marriage to Michal

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

²⁷ David and his men went out and killed two hundred^[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)

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

²⁰ When David returned home to bless his household,^(A) Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. ‘How the king of Israel honoured 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, ‘It was 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 dance before the Lord, ²² and I will dishonour myself and humble myself even more.^[a][b] However, by the slave girls you spoke about, I will be honoured.’ ²³ And Saul’s daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.