撒母耳记下 6:14

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

大衛束著細麻布的以弗得，在耶和華面前極力跳舞。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
大 卫 穿 着 细 麻 布 的 以 弗 得 ， 在 耶 和 华 面 前 极 力 跳 舞 。

Contextual Overview

¹² The people told David, "The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because the Ark of God is there." So David went and brought it up from Obed-Edom's house to Jerusalem with joy. ¹³ When the men carrying the Ark of the Lord had walked six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fat calf. ¹⁴ Then David danced with all his might before the Lord . He had on a holy linen vest. ¹⁵ David and all the Israelites shouted with joy and blew the trumpets as they brought the Ark of the Lord to the city. ¹⁶ As the Ark of the Lord came into the city, Saul's daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw David jumping and dancing in the presence of the Lord , she hated him. ¹⁷ David put up a tent for the Ark of the Lord , and then the Israelites put it in its place inside the tent. David offered whole burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord . ¹⁸ When David finished offering the whole burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord All-Powerful. ¹⁹ David gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins to every Israelite, both men and women. Then all the people went home.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

danced: Exodus 15:20, Judges 11:34, Judges 21:21, Psalms 30:11, Psalms 149:3, Psalms 150:4, Luke 15:25

with all his: Deuteronomy 6:5, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Colossians 3:23

girded: 1 Samuel 2:18, 1 Samuel 2:28, 1 Samuel 22:18, 1 Chronicles 15:27

Reciprocal: Exodus 28:4 - ephod Exodus 32:19 - the dancing 1 Samuel 19:24 - stripped 2 Samuel 6:20 - uncovered 2 Samuel 6:21 - before 2 Chronicles 20:27 - forefront Ezekiel 46:10 - General Hosea 3:4 - ephod

Cross-References

Exodus 2:3
But after three months she was not able to hide the baby any longer, so she got a basket made of reeds and covered it with tar so that it would float. She put the baby in the basket. Then she put the basket among the tall stalks of grass at the edge of the Nile River.

Matthew 24:38
In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving their children to be married, until the day Noah entered the boat.

Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving their children to be married until the day Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

1 Peter 3:20
who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for them while Noah was building the boat. Only a few people—eight in all—were saved by water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And David danced before the Lord with all [his] might,.... That is, before the ark of the Lord; not a set dance, or along with others; but he leaped and skipped as "car", a lamb, does, and that for joy that the ark was like to be brought home to his house, without any token of the divine displeasure, as before; the Targum is,

"he praised before the Lord with all his might;''

exerted himself to the uttermost in singing the praises of God vocally, or by playing on an instrument; to which sense are the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, which is approved of by Castel p; who observes, it nowhere appears to have been a custom to dance before the ark; but it might be now done, though not usual, and therefore was observed by Michal with contempt, 2 Samuel 6:16; a later writer q shows that dancing is the proper sense of the word:

and David [was] girded with a linen ephod; which others, besides priests, sometimes wore, as Samuel did, and which David might choose to appear in, rather than in his royal robes, as being more agreeable to the service of God, and lighter for him both to walk and dance in on this occasion.

p Lexic. col. 1793. q Hackman. Praecidan. Sacr. p. 156, 157.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Danced - The Hebrew word is found only here and in 2 Samuel 6:16. It means “to dance in a circle,” hence, simply to dance. The parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 15:27 gives a widely different sense.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Samuel 6:14. And David danced before the Lord — Dancing is a religious ceremony among the Hindoos, and they consider it an act of devotion to their idols. It is evident that David considered it in the same light. What connection dancing can have with devotion I cannot tell. This I know, that unpremeditated and involuntary skipping may be the effect of sudden mental elation.