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It was reported to King David: "The Lord has blessed Obed-edom's family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God." So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom's house to the city of David with rejoicing.
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When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
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David was dancing with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.
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He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the ram's horn.
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As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
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They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had set up for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord's presence.
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When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
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Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one of the whole multitude of the people of Israel, both men and women. Then all the people left, each to his own home.
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When David returned [home] to bless his household, Saul's daughter Michal came out to meet him. "How the king of Israel honored 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."
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David replied to Michal, "I was dancing before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord's people Israel. I will celebrate before the Lord,
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and I will humble myself even more and humiliate myself.I will be honored by the slave girls you spoke about."