2 Samuel 6:22
And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour. And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
The verse belongs to the first effort to bring the ark of God from the house of Abinadab at Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem. Thirty thousand leading men of Israel were assembled with the high priest, priests, princes and tribal leaders. The ark was placed on a new cart drawn by oxen and attended by two sons of Abinadab, while David and all the house of Israel went before the Lord in triumphal procession toward the holy city with exultant shouts, songs of rejoicing, harps, psalteries, timbrels, cornets and cymbals. At Nachon's threshingfloor the oxen shook the ark and Uzzah put forth his hand and took hold of it, and God smote him dead there for his rashness. That stroke turned gladness to terror, grief and mourning, and left David astonished, alarmed and questioning God's justice while he was seeking to honor the ark as the symbol of the divine presence, so that he felt it unsafe to have the ark near him and left it at the nearby house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
The verse is David's answer to Michal, for her scorn for his leaping and dancing was scorn for the service of God. His dancing was performed before the Lord who chose him above Saul and all of Saul's house to appoint him ruler over Israel, and for that reason he would play and celebrate before the Lord. To be yet more vile and base in his own sight means to humble himself willingly in worship before God without regard for dignity or rank.
Against her charge that he had uncovered himself before the handmaids, he declares that those maidservants of whom she spoke will hold him in honor. Pride and arrogance that despises such humble worship brings the Lord's rebuke. So it was seen in Michal, who had no child to the day of her death.