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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:12-19

We have here the second attempt to bring the ark home to the city of David; and this succeeded, though the former miscarried. I. It should seem the blessing with which the house of Obed-edom was blessed for the ark's sake was a great inducement to David to bring it forward; for when that was told him (2 Sam. 6:12) he hastened to fetch it to him. For, 1. It was an evidence that God was reconciled to them, and his anger was turned away. As David could read God's frowns upon them all in Uzzah's... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:20-23

David, having dismissed the congregation with a blessing, returned to bless his household (2 Sam. 6:20), that is, to pray with them and for them, and to offer up his family thanksgiving for this national mercy. Ministers must not think that their public performances will excuse them from their family-worship; but when they have, with their instructions and prayers, blessed the solemn assemblies, they must return in the same manner to bless their households, for with them they are in a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:16

And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David ,.... Being brought thither on the shoulders of the Levites: Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window ; in the king's palace, to see the procession, which was very grand, and in great pomp, attended by a vast number of people, and with music of all sorts. She is said to be Saul's daughter, though David's wife, as having a good deal of her father's haughty temper and disposition, as appears by what follows: and saw King... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:17

And they brought in the ark of the Lord ,.... Into the city of David, the strong hold of Zion: and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it : or "stretched out"; for this was not the tabernacle of Moses, David pitched any where; that was at this time at Gibeon, where it continued to the time of Solomon, 1 Chronicles 21:29 ; but this was a curtain, or curtains, which he had stretched out or drawn around for the ark to be pitched in the midst of;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:18

And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings ,.... Or these were performed according to his order: he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts ; not as a priest, but as a prince, as the common father of them, wishing them all happiness and prosperity outward and inward, praying to God to bless them with all blessings temporal and spiritual, who is the God of armies above and below, and can do what he pleases, and more than his people can... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:19

And he dealt among all the people ,.... Gave a dole unto them, divided among them: even among the whole multitude of Israel : and if there were so many as at first, there were thirty thousand of them, 2 Samuel 6:1 ; and perhaps more, since it follows: as well to the women as men ; to both the one and the other; and the women, it is very probable, were not among those that went to fetch the ark, but assembled to attend the entrance of it into the city, and were present at the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:20

Then David returned to bless his household ,.... His wife, children, and servants, to wish all happiness to them on this occasion, and pray to God for blessings on them temporal and spiritual. This was done when he came from the place where the ark was set, and was come to his own palace: and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David ; before he had gotten quite to his own house: and said, how glorious was the king of Israel today ; which she spoke in an ironical jeering... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:16

She despised him in her heart - She did not blame him outwardly; she thought he had disgraced himself, but she kept her mind to herself. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:18

He blessed the people in the name of the Lord - David acted here as priest, for it was the general prerogative of the priests to bless the people, but it appears, by both David and Solomon, that it was the prerogative of the kings also. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:19

A cake of bread - Such as those which are baked without leaven, and are made very thin. A good piece of flesh , and a flagon of wine - The words of flesh and of wine we add; they are not in the Hebrew. The Chaldee translates one part and one portion; but all the other versions understand the Hebrew as we do. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:12-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:20-23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 2 Samuel 6:20

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:16

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 2 Samuel 6:19

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