2 Samuel 6:14

David was wearing only a linen cloth wrapped around his waist, and was dancing very energetically to honor Yahweh.

Translation for Translators

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

13This time, descendants of Levi were carrying the sacred chest, but when they had walked only six steps, they stopped, and there David killed a bull and a fat calf, and offered them to Yahweh for a sacrifice.

15David and the Israeli men took the sacred chest up to Jerusalem, shouting loudly and blowing trumpets.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:20Then Miriam, who was Aaron’s older sister and a ◄prophetess/woman who spoke messages that came directly from God►, picked up her tambourine,

Deuteronomy 6:5You must love him with all your inner being and with all that you feel and with all that you do.

Judges 21:21Keep watching for the young women to come out of the city to dance. When they come out, all of you should run out of the vineyards. Each of you can seize one of the young women of Shiloh. Then you can all return to your homes with those women.

1 Samuel 2:28From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him and his male descendants to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron as they worked for me. And I declared that they could take and eat some of the meat that the Israeli people burned on the altar.

1 Chronicles 15:27All the descendants of Levi who carried the Sacred Chest, all the singers, and Kenaniah, the man who directed those who sang, wore robes of fine white linen and sacred vests made of fine linen. David also wore a sacred vest made of white linen.

Psalms 149:3Praise Yahweh by dancing, by beating/playing tambourines, and by playing harps to praise him!

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 →

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