_AND DAVID CONSULTED WITH THE CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS AND HUNDREDS, AND WITH EVERY LEADER._ David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, ... Gratitude for the high and splendid dignity to which he had been elevated would naturally, at this period, impart a fresh animation and impulse... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID SAID UNTO ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL, IF IT SEEM GOOD UNTO YOU, AND THAT IT BE OF THE LORD OUR GOD, LET US SEND ABROAD UNTO OUR BRETHREN EVERY WHERE, THAT ARE LEFT IN ALL THE LAND OF ISRAEL, AND WITH THEM ALSO TO THE PRIESTS AND LEVITES WHICH ARE IN THEIR CITIES AND SUBURBS, THAT THEY... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND LET US BRING AGAIN THE ARK OF OUR GOD TO US: FOR WE INQUIRED NOT AT IT IN THE DAYS OF SAUL._ Let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul. This neglect, so unwonted in those early times, is spoken of as an unhappy sign of the religious degeneracy p... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ALL THE CONGREGATION SAID THAT THEY WOULD DO SO: FOR THE THING WAS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF ALL THE PEOPLE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO DAVID GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER, FROM SHIHOR OF EGYPT EVEN UNTO THE ENTERING OF HAMATH, TO BRING THE ARK OF GOD FROM KIRJATH-JE'ARIM._ From Shihor of Egypt (Joshua 15:4; Joshua 15:47; Numbers 34:5; 1 Kings 8:65; 2 Kings 24:7; 2 Chronicles 7:8) - Wady el-Arish. This is taken by many writers f... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND DAVID WENT UP, AND ALL ISRAEL, TO BAALAH, THAT IS, TO KIRJATH-JE'ARIM, WHICH BELONGED TO JUDAH, TO BRING UP THENCE THE ARK OF GOD THE LORD, THAT DWELLETH BETWEEN THE CHERUBIMS, WHOSE NAME IS CALLED ON IT._ David went up ... to Baalah (see the notes at 2 Samuel 6:1) - for Baalah in the Hebrew t... [ Continue Reading ]