2 Samuel 6:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

She despised him in her heart Imagining that he debased himself by stripping himself of the ornaments of majesty, and dancing among the common people. She had no knowledge nor conception, it appears, of those emotions of divine love which David felt, and which he declared to her afterward.

2 Samuel 6:16

16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.