2 Samuel 6:19-20

6:19 He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, ¹  both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, ²  and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home. ³  6:20 When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, ⁴  Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. ⁵  She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished ⁶  himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool ⁷  might do!”

¹ tn Heb “to all the people, to all the throng of Israel.”

² tn The Hebrew word used here אֶשְׁפָּר (’espar) is found in the OT only here and in the parallel passage found in 1 Chr 16:3. Its exact meaning is uncertain, although the context indicates that it was a food of some sort (cf. KJV “a good piece of flesh”; NRSV “a portion of meat”). The translation adopted here (“date cake”) follows the lead of the Greek translations of the LXX, Aquila, and Symmachus (cf. NASB, NIV, NLT).

³ tn Heb “and all the people went, each to his house.”

⁴ tn Heb “and David returned to bless his house.”

⁵ tn Heb “David.” The name has been replaced by the pronoun (“him”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.

⁶ tn Heb “honored.”

⁷ tn Heb “one of the foolish ones.”