2 Samuel 5:11-6:23New King James Version (NKJV)
11 Then Hiram king of Tyre sent
messengers to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters and masons. And they built
David a house. 12 So David knew that
the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that He had
exalted His kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.
13 And David took more concubines and
wives from Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron. Also more sons and
daughters were born to David. 14 Now these are the
names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua,[a] Shobab, Nathan,
Solomon, 15 Ibhar, Elishua,[b] Nepheg, Japhia, 16 Elishama,
Eliada, and Eliphelet.
The Philistines Defeated
17 Now when the Philistines heard
that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to
search for David. And David heard of it and went down to the
stronghold. 18 The Philistines also went and
deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. 19 So
David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go up against the
Philistines? Will You deliver them into my hand?”
And the Lord said to David, “Go up, for I will
doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
20 So David went to Baal Perazim, and
David defeated them there; and he said, “The Lord has broken through
my enemies before me, like a breakthrough of water.” Therefore he called the
name of that place Baal Perazim.[c] 21 And
they left their images there, and David and his men carried them away.
22 Then the Philistines went up once
again and deployed themselves in the Valley of Rephaim. 23 Therefore
David inquired of the Lord, and He said, “You shall not go up; circle
around behind them, and come upon them in front of the mulberry trees. 24 And
it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the mulberry
trees, then you shall advance quickly. For then the Lord will go out
before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.” 25 And
David did so, as the Lord commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines
from Geba[d] as far as Gezer.
The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
6 Again David gathered all the choice men of
Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose and went
with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to
bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name,[e] the Lord of
Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. 3 So
they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons
of Abinadab, drove the new cart.[f] 4 And
they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the
hill, accompanying the ark of God; and Ahio went before the ark. 5 Then
David and all the house of Israel played music before
the Lord on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on
harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.
6 And when they came to Nachon’s
threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and
took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the
anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there
for his error; and he died there by the ark of God. 8 And
David became angry because of the Lord’s outbreak against Uzzah; and he
called the name of the place Perez Uzzah[g] to this day.
9 David was afraid of
the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of
the Lord come to me?” 10 So David would
not move the ark of the Lord with him into the City of David; but
David took it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 The
ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three
months. And the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.
12 Now it was told King David,
saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all
that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went
and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David
with gladness. 13 And so it was, when those bearing
the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen and
fatted sheep. 14 Then David danced before
the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing
a linen ephod. 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.
16 Now 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 whirling before the Lord;
and she despised him in her heart. 17 So they
brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the
tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings
and peace offerings before the Lord. 18 And
when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he
blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. 19 Then
he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both
the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and
a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.
20 Then David returned to bless his
household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said,
“How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself today in the
eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the base fellows shamelessly
uncovers himself!”
21 So David said to Michal, “It
was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all
his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel.
Therefore I will play music before the Lord. 22 And
I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight.
But as for the maidservants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in
honor.”
23 Therefore Michal the daughter of
Saul had no children to the day of her death.
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