INTRODUCTION TO 1 CHRONICLES 13
The contents of this chapter are the same with 2 Samuel 6:1, only
David's consultation with the principal men of Israel concerning the
affair herein transacted is premised in the first four verses of this.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID CONSULTED WITH THE CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS, AND HUNDREDS, AND
WITH EVERY LEADER. With the chiliarchs and centurions, and every
officer in that large body of armed men in every tribe, who met to
make and crown him king: for at that time was this consultation had,
and therefore is connected wi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID SAID UNTO ALL THE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL,.... To the above
persons, as representatives of it:
IF IT SEEM GOOD UNTO YOU, AND THAT IT BE OF THE LORD OUR GOD; if it
could be thought by them a good and useful thing, and agreeable to the
will of God, and would make for his glory:
LET US SEND... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LET US BRING AGAIN THE ARK OF OUR GOD TO US,.... The symbol of the
divine Presence, than which nothing was more desirable to David, and
he chose to begin his reign overall Israel with it:
FOR WE INQUIRED NOT AT IT IN THE DAYS OF SAUL; he being indifferent to
religion, and careless about it, and... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE CONGREGATION SAID THAT THEY WOULD DO SO,.... They
unanimously agreed to the motion:
FOR THE THING WAS RIGHT IN THE EYES OF ALL THE PEOPLE; they saw the
propriety, necessity, and usefulness of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
SO DAVID GATHERED ALL ISRAEL TOGETHER,.... The principal of them, even
30,000 select men, 2 Samuel 6:1
FROM SHIHOR OF EGYPT; or the Nile of Egypt, as the Targum and other
Jewish writers, called Shihor from the blackness of its water, see
Jeremiah 2:18 though some think the river Rhinocurura is mean... [ Continue Reading ]
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