2 Samuel 6:14
Good News Translation
David, wearing only a linen cloth around his waist, danced with all his might to honor the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
David danced before the LORD with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.

Contemporary English Version
He was dancing for the LORD with all his might, but he wore only a linen cloth.

New American Bible
Then David came dancing before the LORD with abandon, girt with a linen ephod.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

danced

Exodus 15:20 So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Judges 11:34 And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.

Judges 21:21 And when you shall see the daughters of Silo come out, as the custom is, to dance, come ye on a sudden out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife among them, and go into the land of Benjamin.

Psalm 30:11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into joy: thou hast cut my sackcloth, and hast compassed me with gladness:

Psalm 149:3 Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

Psalm 150:4 Praise him with timbrel and choir: praise him with strings and organs.

Luke 15:25 Now his elder son was in the field and when he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing.

with all this

Deuteronomy 6:5 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.

Colossians 3:23 Whatsoever you do, do it from the heart, as to the Lord, and not to men:

girded

1 Samuel 2:18,28 But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod. . . .

1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.

1 Chronicles 15:27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an ephod of linen.

Context
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
13And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed and ox and a ram: 14And David danced with all his might before the Lord: and David was girded with a linen ephod.15And David and all the louse of Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:20
So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Exodus 15:21
And she began the song to them, saying: Let us sing to the Lord, for he is gloriously magnified, the horse and his rider he hath thrown into the sea.

Exodus 19:6
And you shall be to me a priestly kingdom, and a holy nation. These are the words thou shalt speak to the children of Israel.

Judges 11:34
And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.

1 Samuel 2:18
But Samuel ministered before the face of the Lord: being a child girded with a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 2:28
And I chose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, and burn incense to me, and to wear the ephod before me: and I gave to thy father's house of all the sacrifices of the children of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:15
And David and all the louse of Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.

2 Samuel 6:20
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.

1 Chronicles 15:27
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an ephod of linen.

Psalm 87:7
The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.

Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

Ezekiel 46:10
And the prince in the midst of them, shall go in when they go in, and go out when they go out.

2 Samuel 6:13
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