And when David finished offering the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah of Hosts.

For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his house after him, that they may keep the way of Jehovah, to do righteousness and justice, that Jehovah may bring upon Abraham what He has spoken to him.

And if it seems evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers have served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

So all the people departed, every man to his house; and David returned to bless his house.

i1 [A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the House of David.] i0 par I will exalt You, O Jehovah, for You have lifted me up, and have not allowed my foes to rejoice over me.

I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.

And as the ark of Jehovah was coming into the City of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

because I have borne reproach for Your sake, shame has covered my face.

For the zeal of Your house has eaten Me up; and the reproaches of those who reproached You have fallen upon Me.

But when His next of kin heard about this, they went out to lay hold of Him, for they said, He is beside Himself.

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, Whatever they build, if even a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach upon their own heads, and give them as spoils to a land of captivity.

For He grows up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of the dry ground. He has no form nor splendor that we should regard Him, nor anything spectacular that we should desire Him.

He is despised and rejected by men; a Man of pain, and knowing infirmity; a hiding of faces; being despised, we have esteemed Him not.

Then He comes to Simon Peter. And Peter says to Him, Lord, do You wash my feet?

We are foolish because of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are distinguished, but we are dishonored.

And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

And being found comprised as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

And David was dancing before Jehovah with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

And as the ark of Jehovah was coming into the City of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

So he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

And he also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the house of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men, who went after him.

They were sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they were scourged from the land.