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    2 Samuel · 23 verses

    2 Samuel 6

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    After the ram’s horn, the offerings, and all that royal uproar, David hands every man and woman a loaf, a date cake, and a raisin cake—an unexpectedly careful picnic at the end of a perilous procession.

    The ark stops at the threshing floorvv. 1–12

    David gathers thirty thousand chosen men and sets out from Baale of Judah for the ark. It travels on a new cart from Abinadab’s house, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it and Ahio walking ahead, while Israel supplies the music: harps, tambourines, sistrums, cymbals, and the rest of the joyful racket. Then the oxen stumble at the threshing floor of Nacon. Uzzah reaches out, is struck down beside the ark, and leaves David angry, frightened, and suddenly unwilling to take it any farther. The ark spends three months at the house of Obed-edom the Gittite; there, rather remarkably after such an entrance, the household is blessed. David hears of it and fetches the ark onward with rejoicing.

    Dancing, provisions, and a quarrel at homevv. 13–23

    The second attempt proceeds six paces before David sacrifices an ox and a fattened calf, which is a cautious beginning to a procession involving shouting and a ram’s horn. David dances before the LORD in a linen ephod, and Michal watches from a window, despising him in her heart. The ark is placed inside the tent David has pitched, offerings are made, and the multitude receives its very specific share of the festivities: bread, date cake, and raisin cake. At home, Michal objects to the king’s public undignified display. David answers that he will celebrate and humble himself still more. The chapter then closes with the spare, unexplained sentence that Michal had no children to the day of her death; it does not say what connection, if any, this has with the quarrel.

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    1. 2 Sam 6:1David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

    2. 2 Sam 6:2And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

    3. 2 Sam 6:3They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

    4. 2 Sam 6:4bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

    5. 2 Sam 6:5David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

    6. 2 Sam 6:6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

    7. 2 Sam 6:7And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

    8. 2 Sam 6:8Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

    9. 2 Sam 6:9That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

    10. 2 Sam 6:10So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

    11. 2 Sam 6:11Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.

    12. 2 Sam 6:12Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

    13. 2 Sam 6:13When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

    14. 2 Sam 6:14And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

    15. 2 Sam 6:15while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram’s horn.

    16. 2 Sam 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

    17. 2 Sam 6:17So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

    18. 2 Sam 6:18When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.

    19. 2 Sam 6:19Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each to his own home.

    20. 2 Sam 6:20When David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”

    21. 2 Sam 6:21But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

    22. 2 Sam 6:22and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

    23. 2 Sam 6:23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

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    • 71 Samuel 6:19But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.
    • 11Genesis 39:5From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household on account of him. The LORD’s blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.
    • 161 Corinthians 2:14The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
    • 11Genesis 30:27But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
    • 161 Chronicles 15:29As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.
    • 202 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
    • 71 Chronicles 15:13It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”
    • 141 Samuel 2:18Now Samuel was ministering before the LORD—a boy wearing a linen ephod.
    • 202 Samuel 6:14And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
    • 21Acts 13:22After removing Saul, He raised up David as their king and testified about him: ‘I have found David son of Jesse a man after My own heart; he will carry out My will in its entirety.’
    • 21 Samuel 4:4So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
    • 31 Samuel 6:7Now, therefore, prepare one new cart with two milk cows that have never been yoked. Hitch the cows to the cart, but take their calves away and pen them up.
    • 61 Chronicles 13:9When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.
    • 6Numbers 4:15When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.
    • 11Proverbs 3:9–10Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops;
    • 131 Chronicles 15:15And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

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