(1) While Scriptures did not explain the reason why David transferred the ark back to the City of David the first time, it did explain the reason for the second time.
6:12 David was told, “The LORD has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.
Reflection: Do you admire other sisters in Christ who was so blessed by the LORD? They serve in the church in a quiet manner. They manage their household and teach their children to love the LORD. God is a central part of their lives. When I first went to the church I was attracted by Christian brothers and sisters like that.
Reflection: Do you admire other sisters in Christ who was so blessed by the LORD? They serve in the church in a quiet manner. They manage their household and teach their children to love the LORD. God is a central part of their lives. When I first went to the church I was attracted by Christian brothers and sisters like that.
(2) The dancing of David was being ridiculed.
6:16 As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him.
She thought that dancing was not honorable and therefore, not appropriate for a king to do.
v.20b “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself this day! He has exposed himself today before his servants’ slave girls the way a vulgar fool might do!”
However, to David, being seen as a lowly person did not matter. God has already appointed him as king. He was even willing to shame and humiliate himself even more than that v.22a to celebrate before the LORD.
However, to David, being seen as a lowly person did not matter. God has already appointed him as king. He was even willing to shame and humiliate himself even more than that v.22a to celebrate before the LORD.
6:21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the LORD! I was celebrating before the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD’s people Israel. 6:22a I am willing to shame and humiliate myself even more than this!
Reflection: To David, he was the king not because he was being looked up to, but because of God's appointment. It did not matter how other people see us. To please God and humble before Him was the most important thing to David. How about you? Is God bigger or people are bigger?
Reflection: To David, he was the king not because he was being looked up to, but because of God's appointment. It did not matter how other people see us. To please God and humble before Him was the most important thing to David. How about you? Is God bigger or people are bigger?
Many people like to mention this passage and apply that to why it is ok to dance in the church. However, I see that dancing to David carries a deeper meaning. He was willing to be humiliated by others if they think it is not an appropriate thing for a king. What are you willing to do for God even if it is a humiliating thing to do? Cleaning the church? Taking the trash out? Or being the first one to seek reconciliation in a fight with your spouse?
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Side notes: Why God was furious with Uzzah and killed him?
(NAC) However, in so doing he committed a capital offense established in the Torah (cf. Num 4:15). Since he was not an Aaronic priest, he was prohibited from touching this holiest object in the Yahwistic faith. Uzzah’s conscientious effort to protect the ark actually defiled it; accordingly, “the LORD’S anger burned against Uzzah” (v. 7). Uzzah’s act violated a divinely established taboo and was therefore “irreverent”; appropriately, “God”—not some impersonal force—“struck him down and he died there beside the ark of God.” For the third time in the books of Samuel (cf. 1 Sam 5:3–12; 6:19–20), the Lord had demonstrated that he was capable of defending the ark.
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v.1-11
B:
1. David again assembled all the best men in Israel, 30,000 in number v.1. Why, "again?"
(EBC) For the third time (“again,” v.1; cf. 5:17–21, 22–25) David assembles his troops, here to serve as a military escort for the ark of the covenant...David’s troops outnumber Saul’s by a factor of ten, perhaps to underscore the significance and solemnity of David’s mission (cf. Carlson, pp. 64–65).
2. Not in many places the name of God is called, "the LORD of Heaven's Armies," v.2. One of them was used by David in 1 Samuel 17:45
45 But David replied to the Philistine, “You are coming against me with sword and spear and javelin. But I am coming against you in the name of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel’s armies, whom you have defied!
David trusted God then and loved to have His ark coming to the City of David v.2, 10.
3. Repeated word in v.7, 8
The LORD was so furious with Uzzah...
David was angry because the LORD attacked Uzzah... v.9 David was afraid of the LORD that day...v.10 David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the LORD to be with him...David left it in the house of O-E...
Why was the LORD angry? And why was David angry?
(EBC) Just as God had “struck down” and put to death some of the men of Beth Shemesh for looking into the ark (1 Sam 6:19; cf. Num 4:20), so also God “struck [Uzzah] down” (v.7) for touching the ark...David is understandably indignant that the divine “wrath” (v.8, lit., “breaking out”) has broken out against Uzzah and resulted in his death, a seemingly harsh penalty for so small an infraction.
Side note: (NET) The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew MSS in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.
R: God was so close to David that he could even hear his sound and fought for Israel. Now, David wanted to get close to Him by bringing His ark home with him. However, the holiness of God is serious, even to the smallest details. There is no small matter in His holiness. What small matter did I miss? If I want God's guidance in leading DMSS, what matters regarding holiness that I miss.
v.13-25
B:
The whole passage was an joyful occasion. v. 12 joyfully, 14 dancing, 15 shouting and blowing trumpets, 18 David blessed the people and 19 gave every one food, and 20 David went home to bless his family.
The whole passage was an joyful occasion. v. 12 joyfully, 14 dancing, 15 shouting and blowing trumpets, 18 David blessed the people and 19 gave every one food, and 20 David went home to bless his family.
In the middle of the passage v.16 Michal despised David, and she carried the only conversation in this passage with David v. 20-22.
3 of the 4 times she was mentioned as Saul's daughter and in their conversation, David answered her humiliation with the fact that the LORD, who chose me over your father and his entire family and appointed me as leader over the LORD’s people Israel. v.21.
R: Why Michal did not share the joy with others? The ark of the LORD came to the city of David. The symbol for the presence of God. Obviously she did not care about that.
Her focus is the way David dress and how he acted like a fool before others, but David argued that he focus on how he celebrated before the LORD, being honorable or not before men was not important. He was the leader not because of whether he was honorable before men, but because of the LORD.
What about me? If my focus is not on God and cared about how He sees me my life would not be joyful.
Her deep rooted problem was being the daughter of Saul and despised David being the leader of Israel. She did not see her position as the wife of David, the king. What a pity on just focus on the negative side of her life.
What about me? What do I focus on determine my joy.
O:
1. 5:1 Now the Philistines had captured the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod
11 So they assembled all the leaders of the Philistines and said, “Get the ark of the God of Israel out of here! Let it go back to its own place so that it won’t kill us and our people!” The terror of death was throughout the entire city; God was attacking them very severely there.
1 Samuel 6:8
8 Then take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.
13 Now the residents of Beth Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley. When they looked up and saw the ark, they were pleased at the sight.
1 Samuel 6:19
19 But the LORD struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the LORD; he struck down 50,070 of the men. The people grieved because the LORD had struck the people with a hard blow.
21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down here and take it back home with you.”
7:2 It was quite a long time—some twenty years in all—that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people of Israel longed for the LORD.
2. nu 4:15 “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, when the camp is ready to journey, then the Kohathites will come to carry them; but they must not touch any holy thing, or they will die.
All the holy things could not be touched or they will die. 2 sam 6:6b Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of the ark of God
3. 1 ch 15: 11 David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar, along with the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12 He told them: “You are the leaders of the Levites’ families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves and bring the ark of the LORD God of Israel up to the place I have prepared for it. 13 The first time you did not carry it; that is why the LORD God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it.”
4. He was joyfully v.12, he sacrificed v.13 and he danced with all his strength before the LORD v.14.
5. she despised David v.16 and thought that he was not honorable.
6. David rebuked her view about honor. He did that for the LORD so being honorable before men or not was not the most important. He is the leader because of the LORD v.22. She lost her position as a wife of David and bearing children for him.
7. When I do not share their emotion or why they were zeal.
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