2 Samuel 6:16

Despised him. Michal could not appreciate or understand the fervor that led David to associate with the people in giving such vivid expression to his joy in the Lord. When David sang and danced before God his act of worship was honored by Heaven, but it was despised by his wife. Michal, whose father had been ecstatic on more than one occasion (1 Sam. 10:10; 19:22–24), had no right to complain of David’s exuberance. But the occasion may have provided the excuse for giving vent to her pent-up feelings of ill will. She had once fallen in love with David as a young hero, but her marriage to him had soon ended with his flight from Saul. Now some 20 years had passed, during which she had been married to another man, from whom she had been taken by force and handed over to her former husband as a political prize after a long war against her father’s house. The proud daughter of Saul was full of resentment and ready to find fault with David, even with his zeal for honoring the Lord in what was then an acceptable mode of praise.