2 Samuel 6 (NET)

2 Samuel 6:1¹David again assembled all the best men in Israel, 30,000 in number.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 13:1-41 Chr 13:6-141 Kgs 8:1Ps 132:1-6

2 Samuel 6:2²David and all the men who were with him traveled to Baalah in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 4:41 Chr 13:5-61 Sam 7:1Exod 25:18-22Ps 80:11 Pet 1:121 Kgs 8:6-7Isa 47:4Isa 54:5Lev 24:11-16

2 Samuel 6:3³They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:7Num 7:4-9

2 Samuel 6:4⁴They brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Ahio was walking in front of the ark,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 13:71 Sam 7:1-2

2 Samuel 6:5⁵while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 13:8Ps 150:3-5Amos 5:231 Chr 15:10-241 Sam 10:51 Sam 16:161 Sam 18:6-72 Kgs 3:15Amos 6:5Dan 3:10

2 Samuel 6:6⁶When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 13:9Num 4:15Num 4:19-20

2 Samuel 6:7⁷The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him on the spot for his negligence. He died right there beside the ark of God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 6:191 Chr 15:131 Chr 13:101 Chr 15:21 Cor 11:30-32Lev 10:1-3

2 Samuel 6:8⁸David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 13:11-12Jonah 4:1Jonah 4:9

2 Samuel 6:9⁹David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:1201 Chr 13:11-121 Kgs 8:271 Sam 5:10-111 Sam 6:20Num 17:12-13Isa 6:5Job 25:5-6Luke 5:8-9

2 Samuel 6:10¹⁰So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 26:4-81 Chr 13:13-141 Chr 15:181 Chr 16:52 Sam 15:192 Sam 18:22 Sam 4:3

2 Samuel 6:11¹¹The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 39:5Gen 30:27Prov 3:9-10Mal 3:10Gen 39:23

2 Samuel 6:12¹²King David was told, “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 15:25-16:31 Kgs 8:1Matt 10:42Ps 24:7-10Ps 68:24-271 Chr 15:1-3Ps 132:6-8

2 Samuel 6:13¹³Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 15:151 Kgs 8:5Num 4:151 Chr 15:2Josh 3:3Num 7:91 Chr 15:25-262 Chr 5:6

2 Samuel 6:14¹⁴Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:18Exod 15:20Judg 11:34Ps 149:3Ps 150:41 Sam 2:28Col 3:23Ps 30:111 Chr 15:271 Sam 22:18

2 Samuel 6:15¹⁵David and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord, shouting and blowing trumpets.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 68:24-271 Chr 15:161 Chr 15:251 Chr 15:28Ezra 3:10-11Josh 6:4-5Num 10:1-10Ps 150:3Ps 47:1Ps 47:5-6

2 Samuel 6:16¹⁶As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:141 Chr 15:292 Sam 3:14Acts 2:13Ps 69:7Isa 53:3

2 Samuel 6:17¹⁷They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 15:12 Chr 1:41 Kgs 8:51 Kgs 8:62-65Ps 132:82 Chr 5:62 Chr 7:5-7Ezra 6:16-171 Chr 16:1

2 Samuel 6:18¹⁸When David finished offering the burnt sacrifices and peace offerings, he pronounced a blessing over the people in the name of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 16:21 Kgs 8:551 Kgs 8:142 Chr 30:18-192 Chr 30:272 Chr 6:3Acts 3:26Exod 39:43Gen 14:19Heb 7:1-7

2 Samuel 6:19¹⁹He then handed out to each member of the entire assembly of Israel, both men and women, a portion of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then all the people went home.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Neh 8:101 Chr 16:31 Kgs 8:662 Chr 30:242 Chr 35:12-132 Chr 35:7-82 Chr 7:10Acts 20:35Eph 4:8Ezek 45:17

2 Samuel 6:20²⁰When David went home to pronounce a blessing on his own house, Michal, Saul’s daughter, came out to meet him. She said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 6:162 Sam 6:14Judg 9:4Mark 3:21Phil 2:7-81 Chr 16:431 Sam 19:23-242 Sam 6:18Gen 18:19Isa 53:2-3

2 Samuel 6:21²¹David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord! I was celebrating before the Lord, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the Lord ’s people Israel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 13:221 Sam 13:142 Sam 6:16Ps 89:19-201 Sam 15:28Ps 78:70-721 Sam 16:12 Sam 6:142 Sam 6:51 Cor 10:31

2 Samuel 6:22²²I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this. But with the slave girls whom you mentioned, let me be distinguished.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:14Heb 12:2Isa 51:71 Tim 1:15Acts 5:41-42Gen 32:10Isa 50:6Job 40:4Job 42:6Matt 5:11-12

2 Samuel 6:23²³Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 1:25