The "DAVID DANCED WHILE NAKED" error

[Jay]

What to say, what to say?

I had never really thought about it all that much until now. I believe that when the Bible was translated the words naked meant fully unclothed, while the word nakedness implies that there is little or nothing being worn, or that you are committing what we would call today 'indecent exposure'.

That having been said, I do not find David to be dancing until he was entirely naked, but only until he had was dancing in an ephod, this could have been an undergarment that was more revealing than his other clothing without actually showing any 'nakedness'. I do think that his wife was appalled by his actions, and was jealous over his kingly dignity. Her father would have influenced what her visions of proper royal decorum would have been.

All of this, compounded by a seeming lack of interest in the things of God on her part, set the seen for the sad finale on what was a very happy day. David says that he would be more base in his own site, but be had in honor.

I would say it is not that different a situation from ours, when we take off the suit coat and dance until the shirt is entirely untucked, and we hunt for the tie on the third row, and who knows where the watch and pocket change are. Women shout their hair down, and then there are pins lying all over the floor. We have abased ourselves in our eyes, and in the eyes of our fellow men. We are told that we look like we are insane and crazy. However, such is our zeal for God, that we do not care what others say.

I hold that is a similar circumstance with David.