2 Samuel 6:16 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ As the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul's daughter [David's wife], looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And it was so, as the ark of Jehovah came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Jehovah; and she despised him in her heart.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ As the LORD’s chest entered David’s City, Saul’s daughter Michal was watching from a window. She saw King David jumping and dancing before the LORD, and she lost all respect for him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And when the ark of the Lord had entered into the city of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord. And she despised him in her heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth Saul's son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed at the price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.

2 Samuel 6:15

So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the horn.

2 Samuel 6:20

And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

1 Chronicles 15:29

And as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David dancing and making merry; and she despised him in her heart.

Psalm 123:3

Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have had more than enough of contempt.

Psalm 69:7

For it is for thy sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Acts 2:13

But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab; I will give her to you for a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord's battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.”

1 Samuel 18:20

Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David; and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.