2 Samuel 6:14
And David is dancing with all [his] strength before YHWH, and David is girded with a linen ephod,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 15:20And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, takes the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses;
Deuteronomy 6:5And you have loved your God YHWH with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.
Judges 21:21and have seen, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances—then you have gone out from the vineyards, and each caught his wife out of the daughters of Shiloh for yourselves, and have gone to the land of Benjamin;
1 Samuel 2:28even to choose him out of all the tribes of Israel for a priest for Myself, to go up on My altar, to make incense, to bear an ephod before Me, and I give to the house of your father all the fire-offerings of the sons of Israel?
1 Chronicles 15:27And David is wrapped in an upper robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who are carrying the Ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah head of the burden of the singers; and an Ephod of linen [is] on David.
Psalms 149:3They praise His Name in a dance, || Sing praise to Him with timbrel and harp.
Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 6:13-20
Michal Despises David. ( b. c. 1045.) 12 And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obed-edom, 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 Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness. 13 And it was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 14 And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David… Read the whole commentary →