1 Chronicles 13:5

_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 for the Nile; but the Septuagint has: apo horioon Aiguptou; and the Syriac, 'from the river of Egypt.' A small brook flowing into the Mediterranean, near the mo

1-5 David said not, What magnificent thing shall I do now? or, What pleasant thing? but, What pious thing? that he might have the comfort and benefit of that sacred oracle. Let us bring the ark to us, that it may be a blessing to us. Those who honour God, profit themselves. It is the wisdom of those setting out in the world, to take God's ark with them. Those are likely to go on in the favour of God, who begin in the fear of God....

Verse 1 Chronicles 13:5. _FROM SHIHOR OF EGYPT EVEN UNTO THE ENTERING OF HEMATH_] "Therefore David gathered all Israel, from the _Nile_, נילוס Nilos, of Egypt, even to the entrance of Antioch." - _T_....

SHIHOR - See the marginal reference and the 1 Kings 8:65 note....

EXPOSITION The opening verses of this chapter explain and amplify the compressed announcement of 2 Samuel 6:1, "Again, David gathered together all the chosen of Israel, thirty thousand." And the remaining verses (6-14) cover the same ground as 2 Samuel 6:2. 1 CHRONICLES 13:1 There can be little doubt that the CAPTAINS OF THOUSANDS AND HUNDREDS... WITH EVERY LEADER, here spoken of, represented what had become by this time a confirmed institution, although in embryo, dating from the time of Moses at least (Numbers 31:14;...

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 meant, which both lay to the south of the land of Israel: EVEN UNTO THE ENTERING OF HAMATH; which the Targum interprets of Antiochia, which lay to the north of the land; so that this collection of the people was made from south to north, the extreme borders of the land: TO BRING THE ARK OF GOD FROM KIRJATHJEARIM; where it then was, and had been a long time, see 1 Samuel 7:1, fro

1 Chronicles 13:1. _And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. 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 may gather themselves unto us: and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul._ It had lain neglected at Kirjathjearim, «in the fields of the wood,» as David writes in the 132 nd Psalm. 1 Chronicles 13:4. And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

3. THE ARK REMOVED FROM KIRJATH-JEARIM CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The consultation about the ark (1 Chronicles 13:1)_ 2. The attempt and the failure (1 Chronicles 13:6) The first thing after the coronation which concerned David was the ark. This reveals the fact that the king had the things of the Lord upon his heart. He at once consulted with the captains about bringing the ark from Kirjath-jearim. The ark is mentioned forty-six times in the two books of Chronicles. (The titles are the following: ark, 15 times; the ark of God, 12 times; the ark of the Covenant of the LORD, 11 times; the ark of the LORD, 4 times; the ark of the Covenant of God, of Thy Strength, of our God and Thy holy ark, each once.) In Chronicles David's gracious words are recorded, which he

THE BRINGING UP OF THE ARK FROM KIRIATH-JEARIM TO THE HOUSE OF OBED-EDOM (_cf._ 2 Samuel 6:1). The event here mentioned is put in its wrong place by the Chronicler (see 2 Samuel 5:11) with the object of emphasizing David's zeal for the worship of Yahweh, which is represented as his first care after being made king and the taking of Jerusalem. 1 Chronicles 13:1. An introduction inserted by the Chronicler setting forth his own point of view. 1 Chronicles 13:5. Shihor: conceived of as the southern boundary of ancient Israel; there is, of course, no mention of this in the parallel accoun

SHIHOR. Not the Nile, but the brook (or Wady) of Egypt (Numbers 34:5.Joshua 15:4; Joshua 15:47). El Arish. ENTERING OF HEMATH. the pass of Hemath, on the extreme north (Numbers 34:8)....