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2 Samuel 6:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. "

2 Samuel 6:14

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12 King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

13 When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

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

15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

16 As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

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1 Chronicles 15:27

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"David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the choir master with the singers; and David had an ephod of linen on him."

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2 Samuel 12:20

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"Then David arose from the earth, and washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothing; and he came into the LORD’s house, and worshiped. Then he came to his own house; and when he requested, they set bread before him and he ate."

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1 Chronicles 13:8

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"David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets."

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1 Samuel 18:14

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"David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him."

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1 Samuel 2:18

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"But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, clothed with a linen ephod."

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2 Samuel 5:10

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"David grew greater and greater, for the LORD, the God of Armies, was with him."

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2 Samuel 6:1

"David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand."

2 Samuel 6:2

"David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Armies who sits above the cherubim."

2 Samuel 6:3

"They set God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart."

2 Samuel 6:4

"They brought it out of Abinadab’s house which was in the hill, with God’s ark; and Ahio went before the ark."

2 Samuel 6:5

"David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals."

2 Samuel 6:6

"When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark and took hold of it, for the cattle stumbled."

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