Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

This is one of my favorite days of reading in all of Scripture. I love it. Let's go.

We started with round two of the story where David brings the ark into Jerusalem and

Mikal is not pleased. So let's walk through that story. After God struck Uza dead,

David becomes afraid of God. We've talked about proper fear of the Lord before, and it's

entirely different than being afraid of God. Proper fear of God, the kind that rightly understands his heart, is made up of delight

and awe, and it draws you to God. But this is the kind of fear that drives a person from God.

David doesn't bring the ark to Jerusalem. He keeps it at the house of Obed Edom instead.

But then, once David sees how God is blessing the people who are near to him,

his fears are dispelled and he remembers who God is. So he proceeds with bringing the ark to Jerusalem.

When we get into the city, we encounter Mikal and her displeasure. What's interesting right off

the bat is that the text calls her Saul's daughter, not David's wife, even though she's both.

But this focus gives us a bit of insight into their relationship.

She and David have a really rocky past.

Her father even gave her to another husband, and then David took her back.

And of course, there's the ongoing rift between David and

Saul that may have affected how she viewed David and even how she viewed the Ark as well.

The Ark was never important to her father when he was King, so I was David making such a big deal about it.

We can't know exactly what she was thinking, but there's enough backstory for us to have a handful of

possibilities.

So here's the scene. David comes dancing into the city wearing a linen robe and a linen

ephid, so he's actually quite covered and not naked at all, despite what she says.

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