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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Samuel 6 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > 2 Samuel 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/5.htm" title="2 Samuel 5">◄</a> 2 Samuel 6 <a href="../2_samuel/7.htm" title="2 Samuel 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/2_samuel/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Moving the Ark to Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then David again gathered all the elite troops in Israel, 30,000 in all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He led them to Baalah of Judah<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> to bring back the Ark of God, which bears the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> who is enthroned between the cherubim. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from Abinadab’s house, which was on a hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab’s sons, were guiding the cart <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that carried the Ark of God.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> Ahio walked in front of the Ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, singing songs<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But when they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out his hand and steadied the Ark of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the LORD’s anger was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him dead because of this.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">e</span></a> So Uzzah died right there beside the Ark of God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>David was angry because the LORD’s anger had burst out against Uzzah. He named that place Perez-uzzah (which means “to burst out against Uzzah”), as it is still called today.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>David was now afraid of the LORD, and he asked, “How can I ever bring the Ark of the LORD back into my care?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So David decided not to move the Ark of the LORD into the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The Ark of the LORD remained there in Obed-edom’s house for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and his entire household.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then King David was told, “The LORD has blessed Obed-edom’s household and everything he has because of the Ark of God.” So David went there and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with a great celebration. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>After the men who were carrying the Ark of the LORD had gone six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And David danced before the LORD with all his might, wearing a priestly garment.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">f</span></a> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the LORD with shouts of joy and the blowing of rams’ horns.</p><p class="hdg">Michal’s Contempt for David</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But as the Ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she was filled with contempt for him.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They brought the Ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the special tent David had prepared for it. And David sacrificed burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When he had finished his sacrifices, David blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he gave to every Israelite man and woman in the crowd a loaf of bread, a cake of dates,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">g</span></a> and a cake of raisins. Then all the people returned to their homes.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When David returned home to bless his own family, Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet him. She said in disgust, “How distinguished the king of Israel looked today, shamelessly exposing himself to the servant girls like any vulgar person might do!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>David retorted to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me above your father and all his family! He appointed me as the leader of Israel, the people of the LORD, so I celebrate before the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yes, and I am willing to look even more foolish than this, even to be humiliated in my own eyes! But those servant girls you mentioned will indeed think I am distinguished!” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So Michal, the daughter of Saul, remained childless throughout her entire life.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:2a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Baale of Judah,</span><span class="ft"> another name for Kiriath-jearim; compare 1 Chr 13:6.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:2b </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">the Ark of God where the Name is proclaimed—the name of the </span><span class="sc"><span class="it">Lord</span></span><span class="it"> of Heaven’s Armies.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:4 </span><span class="ft">As in Dead Sea Scrolls and some Greek manuscripts; Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="fv">4</span><span class="it">and they brought it from Abinadab’s house, which was on a hill, with the Ark of God.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:5 </span><span class="ft">As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version (see also 1 Chr 13:8); Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">before the </span><span class="sc"><span class="it">Lord</span></span><span class="it"> with all manner of cypress wood.</span><br><span class="fn">e</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:7 </span><span class="ft">As in Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text reads </span><span class="it">because of his irreverence.</span><br><span class="fn">f</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:14 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">a linen ephod.</span><br><span class="fn">g</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">6:19 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">a portion of meat.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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