2 Samuel 6:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Psalms 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Psalms 149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Judges 11:34
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-19)

We have here the second attempt to bring the ark home to the city of David; and this succeeded, though the former miscarried. I. It should seem the blessing with which the house of Obed-edom was blessed for the ark’s sake was a great inducement to David to bring it forward; for when that was told him (2 Sam. 6:12) he hastened to fetch it to him. For, 1. It was an evidence that God was reconciled t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. David danced before the Lord--The Hebrews, like other ancient people, had their sacred dances, which were performed on their solemn anniversaries and other great occasions of commemorating some special token of the divine goodness and favor. with all his might--intimating violent efforts of leaping, and divested of his royal mantle (in a state of undress), conduct apparently unsuitable to the…