This verse is a duplicate of 2 Samuel 6:19-20 a.
Departed. — Plural; Samuel has singular.
Returned. — Rather, went round (1 Chronicles 10:14). Samuel has “returned,” which in Hebrew is very similar.
The incident which in 2 Samuel 6:20-23 here follows (Michal’s encounter with David) is omitted by the chronicler as a matter of purely domestic interest, and therefore out of place in his history, which is mainly concerned with the sacred institutions. 1 Chronicles 15:29, however, plainly implies the story.