2 Samuel 6:22

22 and I will humble myself even more and humiliate myself.[a][b]I will be honored by the slave girls you spoke about."

2 Samuel 6:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 6:22

And I will yet be more vile than thus
If this is to be vile, I will endeavour to be viler still; if to dance before the ark, and sing the praises of God, be reckoned a lessening of me, I will more and more be found in doing such things, or what is similar to them:

and will be base in mine own sight:
humble himself, and lie low in his own eyes, admiring the grace and goodness of God to him, thinking he could never condescend too low to exalt the Lord, and magnify the riches of his goodness:

and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be
had in honour;
who the more humble I am, and the more I condescend, by laying aside all state in acts of devotion and religion, the more shall I be honoured and spoken well of by them.

2 Samuel 6:22 In-Context

20 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."
21 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,
22 and I will humble myself even more and humiliate myself.I will be honored by the slave girls you spoke about."
23 And Saul's daughter Michal had no child to the day of her death.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. LXX reads more and I will be humble in your eyes
  • [b]. Lit more and I will be humble in my own eyes
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