2 Samuel 6:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal 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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Saul’s son Ishbaal, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I became engaged at the price of one hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, which is now 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 trumpet.

2 Samuel 6:20

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 any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!”

1 Chronicles 15:29

As the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing, 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

It is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that shame has covered my face.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected by others; a man of suffering and acquainted with infirmity, and as one from whom others hide their faces he was despised, and we held him of no account.

Acts 2:13

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

1 Corinthians 2:14

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable 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 as a wife; only be valiant for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “I will not raise a hand against him; let the Philistines deal with him.”

1 Samuel 18:20

Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. Saul was told, and the thing pleased him.