2 Samuel 6:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 15:29 : 29 As the ark of the LORD’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:“Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
  • Ps 69:7 : 7 For I suffer humiliation for your sake and am thoroughly disgraced.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
  • Acts 2:13 : 13 But others jeered at the speakers, saying,“They are drunk on new wine!”
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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

    27David was wrapped in a linen robe, as were all the Levites carrying the ark, the musicians, and Kenaniah the supervisor of transport and the musicians; David also wore a linen ephod.

    28All Israel brought up the ark of the LORD’s covenant; they were shouting, blowing trumpets, sounding cymbals, and playing stringed instruments.

    29As the ark of the LORD’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.

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

    20When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. She said,“How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!”

    21David replied to Michal,“It was before the LORD! I was celebrating before the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD’s people Israel.

    22I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this! But with the slave girls whom you mentioned let me be distinguished!”

    23Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

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

    12King David was told,“The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

    13Those who carried the ark of the LORD took six steps and then David sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

    14Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the LORD.

    15David and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD, shouting and blowing trumpets.

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

    19When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

    20Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

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

    26So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

    27when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

    28When Saul realized that the LORD was with David and that his daughter Michal loved David,

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

    11Saul sent messengers to David’s house to guard it and to kill him in the morning. Then David’s wife Michal told him,“If you do not save yourself tonight, tomorrow you will be dead!”

    12So Michal lowered David through the window, and he ran away and escaped.

    13Then Michal took a household idol and put it on the bed. She put a quilt made of goat’s hair over its head and then covered the idol with a garment.

    14When Saul sent messengers to arrest David, she said,“He’s sick.”

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9David was afraid of the LORD that day and said,“How will the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

    10So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
    72%

    17They brought the ark of the LORD and put it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 18:6
    71%

    6When the men arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments.

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

    12David was afraid of God that day and said,“How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?”

    13So David did not move the ark to the City of David; he left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
    68%

    17Saul said to Michal,“Why have you deceived me this way by sending my enemy away? Now he has escaped!” Michal replied to Saul,“He said to me,‘Help me get away or else I will kill you!’”

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

    14David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:“Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

    15So Ish-bosheth took her from her husband Paltiel son of Laish.

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

    16But all Israel and Judah loved David, for he was the one leading them out to battle and back.

    17Then Saul said to David,“Here’s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior for me and fight the battles of the LORD.”For Saul thought,“There’s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!”

  • 1 Chr 13:8
    67%

    8while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
    67%

    2David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
    67%

    27When the time of mourning passed, David had her brought to his palace. She became his wife and she bore him a son. But what David had done upset the LORD.

  • 1 Sam 6:13
    66%

    13Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.

  • 1 Chr 13:6
    66%

    6David and all Israel went up to Baalah(that is, Kiriath Jearim) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD, who sits enthroned between the cherubim– the ark that is called by his name.

  • 2 Sam 16:5
    66%

    5Shimei Curses David and His Men Then King David reached Bahurim. There a man from Saul’s extended family named Shimei son of Gera came out, yelling curses as he approached.

  • 2 Sam 6:5-6
    2 verses
    66%

    5while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the LORD, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.

    6When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.

  • 1 Chr 15:25
    66%

    25So David, the leaders of Israel, and the commanders of units of a thousand went to bring up the ark of the LORD’s covenant from the house of Obed-Edom with celebration.

  • 1 Sam 18:9
    66%

    9So Saul was keeping an eye on David from that day onward.

  • 2 Chr 8:11
    66%

    11Solomon moved Pharaoh’s daughter up from the City of David to the palace he had built for her, for he said,“My wife must not live in the palace of King David of Israel, for the places where the ark of the LORD has entered are holy.”

  • 2 Sam 11:2
    66%

    2One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.

  • 1 Sam 29:5
    66%

    5Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced,‘Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands’?”

  • 1 Sam 25:44
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    44(Now Saul had given his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Paltiel son of Laish, who was from Gallim.)

  • 1 Sam 4:19
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    19His daughter-in-law, the wife of Phineas, was pregnant and close to giving birth. When she heard that the ark of God was captured and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she doubled over and gave birth. But her labor pains were too much for her.

  • 2 Sam 24:20
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    20When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants approaching him, he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.

  • 2 Sam 16:13
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    13So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.

  • 1 Chr 15:1
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    1David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

  • 1 Chr 15:3
    65%

    3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the LORD up to the place he had prepared for it.