2 Samuel 6:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

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  • 1 Chr 15:29 : 29 And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.
  • Ps 69:7 : 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
  • Acts 2:13 : 13 Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

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  • 1 Chr 15:27-29
    3 verses
    95%

    27And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen.

    28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

    29And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.

  • 2 Sam 6:20-23
    4 verses
    81%

    20¶ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

    21And David said unto Michal, [It was] before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.

    22And 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.

    23Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no child unto the day of her death.

  • 2 Sam 6:12-15
    4 verses
    79%

    12¶ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

    13And it was [so], that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.

    14And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod.

    15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

  • 1 Sam 18:19-20
    2 verses
    75%

    19But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul's daughter should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

    20And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

  • 1 Sam 18:26-28
    3 verses
    74%

    26And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son in law: and the days were not expired.

    27Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full tale to the king, that he might be the king's son in law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter to wife.

    28And Saul saw and knew that the LORD [was] with David, and [that] Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

  • 1 Sam 19:11-14
    4 verses
    73%

    11¶ Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.

    12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

    13And Michal took an image, and laid [it] in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] for his bolster, and covered [it] with a cloth.

    14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He [is] sick.

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

    10So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
    72%

    17And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 18:6
    71%

    6¶ And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

  • 1 Chr 13:12-13
    2 verses
    69%

    12And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God [home] to me?

    13So David brought not the ark [home] to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    68%

    17And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?

  • 2 Sam 3:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver [me] my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

    15And Ishbosheth sent, and took her from [her] husband, [even] from Phaltiel the son of Laish.

  • 1 Sam 18:16-17
    2 verses
    68%

    16But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

    17And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles. For Saul said, Let not mine hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

  • 1 Chr 13:8
    67%

    8And David and all Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    67%

    2And David arose, and went with all the people that [were] with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the LORD of hosts that dwelleth [between] the cherubims.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
    67%

    27And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 6:13
    66%

    13And [they of] Bethshemesh [were] reaping their wheat harvest in the valley: and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark, and rejoiced to see [it].

  • 1 Chr 13:6
    66%

    6And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kirjathjearim, which [belonged] to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth [between] the cherubims, whose name is called [on it].

  • 2 Sam 16:5
    66%

    5¶ And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name [was] Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came.

  • 2 Sam 6:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

    6¶ And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook [it].

  • 1 Chr 15:25
    66%

    25¶ So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.

  • 1 Sam 18:9
    66%

    9And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    66%

    11And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because [the places are] holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come.

  • 2 Sam 11:2
    66%

    2And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman [was] very beautiful to look upon.

  • 1 Sam 29:5
    66%

    5[Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

  • 1 Sam 25:44
    66%

    44But Saul had given Michal his daughter, David's wife, to Phalti the son of Laish, which [was] of Gallim.

  • 1 Sam 4:19
    65%

    19¶ And his daughter in law, Phinehas' wife, was with child, [near] to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.

  • 2 Sam 24:20
    65%

    20And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

  • 2 Sam 16:13
    65%

    13And as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him, and cast dust.

  • 1 Chr 15:1
    65%

    1¶ And [David] made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

  • 1 Chr 15:3
    65%

    3And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.