2 Samuel 6 Bible study: With all his might

The ark has been away a long time. The Philistines took it (1 Samuel 4:11) and sent it back (1 Samuel 6:21), and the men of Kiriath Jearim "brought it into Abinadab’s house on the hill" (1 Samuel 7:1). "From the day that the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, the time was long—for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD" (1 Samuel 7:2). Now "David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand" (6:1), and went "from Baale Judah, to bring up from there God’s ark, which is called by the Name, even the name of the LORD of Armies who sits above the cherubim" (6:2) (tap Name and cherubim). The town has more than one name. Joshua speaks of "Baalah (also called Kiriath Jearim)" (Joshua 15:9), and Chronicles, telling this same day, says, "David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah" (1 Chronicles 13:6). Before they went, Chronicles tells, David said to the assembly, "let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul" (1 Chronicles 13:3). The same words, "the LORD of Armies, who sits above the cherubim", were said of the ark when it was brought from Shiloh to Israel's camp (1 Samuel 4:4).

2 Samuel 6:21→leads toLuke 19:40

When Michal speaks against David's dancing (6:20), he answers, "It was before the LORD" and "Therefore I will celebrate before the LORD" (6:21). As Jesus came near Jerusalem, "the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice" (Luke 19:37), and some of the Pharisees said, "Teacher, rebuke your disciples!" (Luke 19:39). In Jesus' words: "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out" (Luke 19:40). No New Testament passage cites 2 Samuel 6, and no link between the Hebrew and Greek words is claimed, so setting the two side by side is a reading. Some see the same shape in both: joyful praise on the way into the city, a voice against it, and the praise defended. Others read each on its own terms: in Luke the praise is for "the King who comes in the name of the Lord" (Luke 19:38), and Jesus answers for his disciples, while in 2 Samuel David answers for himself, to Michal (6:20-22).

פָּרַץparatssay pa-RATS

Brown-Driver-Briggs: "break through", including "break out (violently) upon". Strong's: "to break out". "David was displeased because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day" (6:8). In Hebrew the verse has the verb and then its noun, perets, a breach, and the place's name is built on the same noun: Strong's gives Perez Uzzah as "break of Uzza". A chapter before, David named another place with these words: "The LORD has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters" (5:20), and he called it Baal Perazim (5:20). At Sinai the LORD had warned, "Let the priests also, who come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break out on them" (Exodus 19:22). When the ark was brought up again, David said, "the LORD our God broke out in anger against us" (1 Chronicles 15:13). In Genesis the same noun is in the words at Perez's birth, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" and "Therefore his name was called Perez" (Genesis 38:29), and Strong's gives the name Perez as "the same as 6556", this noun.