2 Samuel 6:20 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁰ He said to Nathan the prophet: Dost thou see that I dwell in a house of cedar, and the ark of God is lodged within skins?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And [his wife] Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, How glorious was the king of Israel today, who stripped himself of his kingly robes and uncovered himself in the eyes of his servants' maids as one of the worthless fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

Common English Bible

²⁰ David went home to bless his household, but Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How did Israel’s king honor himself today?” she said. “By exposing himself in plain view of the female servants of his subjects like any indecent person would!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And David returned, so that he might bless his own house. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, going out to meet David, said: "How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and being unclothed, as if one of the performers were unclothed."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ And David returned to bless his own house. And Michol the daughter of Saul, coming out to meet David, said: How glorious was the king of Israel to-day, uncovering himself before the handmaids of his servants, and was naked, as if one of the buffoons should be naked.

2 Samuel 6:20 Cross References

Genesis 18:19

9 For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

2 Samuel 6:14

9 And he distributed to all the multitude of Israel both men and women, to every one, a cake of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and fine flour fried with oil: and all the people departed every one to his house.

2 Samuel 6:16

1 And David said to Michol: Before the Lord, who chose me rather than thy father, and than all his house, and commanded me to be ruler over the people of the Lord in Israel,

2 Samuel 6:18

3 Therefore Michol the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

2 Samuel 6:19

And it came to pass when the king sat in his house, and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies,

1 Chronicles 16:43

For I have not remained in a house from the time that I brought up Israel, to this day: but I have been always changing places in a tabernacle, and in a tent,

Job 30:8

3 They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.

Psalm 101:2

The prayer of the poor man, when he was anxious, and poured out his supplication before the Lord. Hear, O Lord, my prayer: and let my cry come to thee.

Psalm 30:1

To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.

Ecclesiastes 7:17

4 Much more than it was: it is a great depth, who shall find it out?

Mark 14:66

And Pilate asked him: Art thou the king of the Jews? But he answering, saith to him: Thou sayest it.

Mark 3:21

9 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, shall never have forgiveness, but shall be guilty of an everlasting sin.

John 13:6

4 If then I being your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Joshua 24:15

0 If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

Judges 9:4

And it answered: Can I leave my fatness, which both gods and men make use of, to come to be promoted among the trees?

1 Samuel 14:49

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: I have reckoned up all that Amalec hath done to Israel: I how he opposed them in the way when they came up out of Egypt.

1 Samuel 18:20

5 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines.