David “arose and went” to a village of “Judah” to retrieve the ark (2 Sam 6:2 LXX, the only other verse in Scripture that uses the same three Greek words in this way). Mary entered Zechariah’s “house,” as the ark entered the “house” of a certain Obed-edom (Luke 1:40; 2 Sam 6:10). The infant John leaped (skirtaō, Luke 1:41, 44) for joy when Mary arrived; so too David “danced” (skirtaō in one Greek version of 2 Sam 6:16) before the ark “with joy” (2 Sam 6:12). Elizabeth herself in verse 42 “cried out