2 Samuel 6:22
And I will make myself yet more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight; and of the handmaids that thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:30Wherefore Jehovah the God of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Job 42:6Wherefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Matthew 5:11Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.
1 Timothy 1:15Faithful [is] the word, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom *I* am [the] first.
1 Peter 4:14If ye are reproached in [the] name of Christ, blessed [are ye]; for the [Spirit] of glory and the Spirit of God rests upon you: [on their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.]
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 6:21-23
David Expostulates with Michal. ( b. c. 1045.) 20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself! 21 And David said unto Michal, It was before the Lord , which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord , over Israel:… Read the whole commentary →