2 Samuel 6:16

World English Bible (2000)

It was so, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

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  • 1 Chr 15:29 : 29 It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."
  • Ps 69:7 : 7 Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.
  • Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn't respect him.
  • Acts 2:13 : 13 Others, mocking, said, "They are filled with new wine."
  • 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

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  • 1 Chr 15:27-29
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    27David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song [with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen.

    28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

    29It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

  • 2 Sam 6:20-23
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    20Then David returned to bless his household. Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How glorious the king of Israel was today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!"

    21David said to Michal, "It was before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel. Therefore will I celebrate before Yahweh.

    22I will be yet more vile than this, and will be base in my own sight. But of the handmaids of whom you have spoken, they shall honor me."

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

  • 2 Sam 6:12-15
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    12It was told king David, saying, "Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God." David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the city of David with joy.

    13It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

    14David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

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

  • 1 Sam 18:19-20
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    75%

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

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

  • 1 Sam 18:26-28
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    26When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired;

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

    28Saul saw and knew that Yahweh was with David; and Michal, Saul's daughter, loved him.

  • 1 Sam 19:11-14
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    11Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you don't save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."

    12So Michal let David down through the window. He went, fled, and escaped.

    13Michal took the teraphim, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' [hair] at its head, and covered it with the clothes.

    14When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, "He is sick."

  • 2 Sam 6:9-10
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    9David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, "How shall the ark of Yahweh come to me?"

    10So David would not move the ark of Yahweh to be with him in the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

  • 2 Sam 6:17
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    17They brought in the ark of Yahweh, and set it in its place, in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 18:6
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    6It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

  • 1 Chr 13:12-13
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    12David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?"

    13So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

  • 1 Sam 19:17
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    17Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me thus, and let my enemy go, so that he is escaped?" Michal answered Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go! Why should I kill you?'"

  • 2 Sam 3:14-15
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    14David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

    15Ishbosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.

  • 1 Sam 18:16-17
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    16But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

    17Saul said to David, "Behold, my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight Yahweh's battles." For Saul said, "Don't let my hand be on him, but let the hand of the Philistines be on him."

  • 1 Chr 13:8
    67%

    8David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
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    2David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Armies who sits [above] the cherubim.

  • 2 Sam 11:27
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    27When the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Yahweh.

  • 1 Sam 6:13
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    13They of Beth Shemesh 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
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    6David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits [above] the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

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  • 2 Sam 6:5-6
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    5David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

    6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.

  • 1 Chr 15:25
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    25So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

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  • 1 Chr 15:3
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