2 Samuel 6:14
And David sounded with well-tuned instruments before the Lord, and David was clothed with a fine long robe.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
13And there were with him bearing the ark seven bands, and for a sacrifice a calf and lambs.
Cross References
Exodus 15:20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, having taken a timbrel in her hand—then there went forth all the women after her with timbrels and dances.
Deuteronomy 6:5And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy mind, and with all thy soul, and all thy strength.
Judges 21:21and ye shall see; and lo! if there come out the daughters of the inhabitants of Shiloh to dance in dances, then shall ye go out of the vineyards and seize for yourselves every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go ye into the land of Benjamin.
1 Samuel 2:28And I chose the house of thy father out of all the tribes of Israel to minister to me in the priest’s office, to go up to my altar, and to burn incense, and to wear an ephod. And I gave to the house of thy father all the offerings by fire of the children of Israel for food.
1 Chronicles 15:27And David was girded with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites who were bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the band of singers; also upon David there was a robe of fine linen.
Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: 1 Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and psaltery. 1
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 →