2 Samuel 6:16 - Modern English Version

¹⁶ When the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window, and upon seeing King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she thought contemptuously of him in her mind.

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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.

2 Samuel 6:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 3:14

Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, to whom I was betrothed for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”

2 Samuel 5:7

Nevertheless, David overthrew the stronghold of Zion, which is now the City of David.

2 Samuel 6:15

So David and the whole house of Israel escorted the ark of the Lord with shouting and the sound of the horn.

2 Samuel 6:20

David returned to bless his household, but Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet him. She said, “How the king of Israel has dignified himself today, exposing himself this day in the sight of his servant’s slave girls like one of the rabble might shamelessly expose himself.”

1 Chronicles 15:29

Now as the ark of the covenant of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal the daughter of Saul was looking down from the window, and when she saw King David dancing and spinning, she despised him in her heart.

Psalm 123:3

Have mercy upon us, O  Lord, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

Psalm 69:7

because for Your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face.

Isaiah 53:3

He was despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from him; he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

Acts 2:13

Others mocking said, “These men are full of new wine.”

1 Corinthians 2:14

But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Samuel 18:17

Saul said to David, “Behold my elder daughter Merab, I will give her to you as your wife. Only be valiant for me, and fight the battles of the Lord.” For Saul said, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

1 Samuel 18:20

Now Michal, daughter of Saul, loved David and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.