2 Kings 6:16
And when the ark of the Lord was come into the city of David, Michol the daughter of Saul, looking out through a window, saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord: and she despised him in her heart.
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The verse in its languages
- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Cumque intrasset arca Domini in civitatem David, Michol filia Saul, prospiciens per fenestram, vidit regem David subsilientem atque saltantem coram Domino : et despexit eum in corde suo.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἐγένετο τῆς κιβωτοῦ παραγινομένης ἕως πόλεως Δαυείδ, καὶ Μελχὸλ ἡ θυγάτηρ Σαοὺλ διέκυπτεν διὰ τῆς θυρίδος, καὶ εἶδεν τὸν βασιλέα Δαυεὶδ ὀρχούμενον καὶ ἀνακρουόμενον ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, καὶ ἐξουδένωσεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ἑαυτῆς.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְהָיָה֙ אֲר֣וֹן יְהוָ֔ה בָּ֖א עִ֣יר דָּוִ֑ד וּמִיכַ֨ל בַּת שָׁא֜וּל נִשְׁקְפָ֣ה בְּעַ֣ד הַחַלּ֗וֹן וַתֵּ֨רֶא אֶת הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ דָּוִד֙ מְפַזֵּ֤ז וּמְכַרְכֵּר֙ לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה וַתִּ֥בֶז ל֖וֹ בְּלִבָּֽהּ
Haydock's commentary
Leaping. Septuagint, "beating" musical instruments....she counted him as nothing, &c. (Haydock)
She rather partook of her father's disposition and pride. (Menochius)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.