Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Samuel 6:14
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2 Samuel6:14
14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod .
To express his inward joy and thankfulness to God by his outward carriage, according to the manner of those times. See Exod. 15. 20. Iudg. 11. 34. and 21. 21. 1 Sam. 18. 6. Psal. 149. 3. and 150. 4.
The usual Habit of the Priests and Levites, in their Sacred Ministrations, yet sometimes worn by others, as it was by the young Child Samuel, 1 Sam. 2. 18. before he was come to those years in which the Levites were allowed to Minister; and so hereby David, who laid by his Royal Robes, and put on this Robe to signify and declare, that although he was King of Israel, yet he willingly owned himself to be the Lords Minister and Servant.
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