David prepared a place for the Ark of God and then summoned the priests and the heads of the Levitical families to bring the Ark back. They brought the Ark back in the right way, according to God's way, not the way they did it earlier when Uzzah was killed. Think they learned a lesson?

The Levites were appointed to serve as singers and musicians.  They were given these responsibilities because they were skillful at those particular tasks.  God gives us talents that work well with our spiritual gifts.

David’s first wife, Michal, daughter of Saul despised David when she saw him dancing and celebrating at the return of the Ark. Why? Could it be because she was jealous? She later accuses David of disrobing in front of the slave girls. (2 Sam 6:20)

In this story of David bringing up the ark and sacrificing bulls and rams, the chronological Bible quoted from 1 Chronicles 15:25-28.  However, if you read 2 Samuel 6:12b-15 (where the same account is recorded) there is some additional information in verse 13 concerning six steps.  
When those who were carrying the ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
Now, this may not seem to be a significant detail, but it is when we refer back to an earlier decree from God in Exodus 20:26
And do not go up to my altar on steps, or your private parts may be exposed.
Is this why Michal was so upset?  Did she know it was wrong to go up steps to a sacrificial altar?   Were David's private parts exposed when he went up the six steps?  Was David even supposed to be wearing the linen ephod?  Those were for the Levites.


In David’s Songs of Praise, Psalm 105 and 96, he reviews and summarizes the story from Joseph to Moses. This keeps a remembrance before the people of all that God had done for them. How are we doing? Do we review and summarize things God has done for us? Do we proclaim “his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all peoples.”

“…worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness…”When we gather before the Lord as a congregation, as a church, as a group of Believers, do we truly worship Him as He deserves? What would it look like to worship Him in the splendor of His holiness?