1 Chronicles 15:27

_AND DAVID WAS CLOTHED WITH A ROBE OF FINE LINEN, AND ALL THE LEVITES THAT BARE THE ARK, AND THE SINGERS, AND CHENANIAH THE MASTER OF THE SONG WITH THE SINGERS: DAVID ALSO HAD UPON HIM AN EPHOD OF LINEN._ A robe of fine linen. х_ BUWTS_ (H948) is rather supposed in the later books to denote cotton. The Septuagint has: Dauid periezoosmenos en stolee bussinee.] AN EPHOD - a shoulder garment, a cincture or cape over his dress. It was worn by the priests, but was not so special to them as to be forbidden to others (1 Samuel 2:18; 1 Samuel 22:18)....

25-29 It is good to notice the assistance of Divine Providence, even in things which fall within the compass of our natural powers; if God did not help us, we could not stir a step. If we do our religious duties in any degree aright, we must own it was God that helped us; had we been left to ourselves, we should have been guilty of some fatal errors. And every thing in which we engage, must be done in dependence on the mercy of God through the sacrifice of the Redeemer....

Verse 1 Chronicles 15:27. _A ROBE OF FLUE LINEN_] A robe made of בוץ _buts_, probably the tuft or beard of the Pinna Magna, a species of muscle found every where on the shores of the Mediterranean, growing sometimes, as I have seen, to a foot and a half in length. I have seen a pair of gloves made of this very rich stuff; the colour is a deep dark yellow, something inclining to what is called the _lilac_. The _buts_ or _byssus_ was not heard of in Israel before the time of David: after that it is frequently mentioned....

“Fine linen” (byssus) is here first spoken of as used for dress. It seems to have been reserved for nobles of the highest rank Esther 8:15, for kings, and for priests 2 Chronicles 5:12. David’s robe was probably worn, like that of the high priest, immediately under the ephod, and may, like that, have reached the feet....

EXPOSITION 1 CHRONICLES 15:1 The contents of this verse and the following verses up to the twenty-fifth have no parallel in the Book of Samuel, and excite suggestion respecting the different objects with which the compiler of Chronicles wrote, as compared with those of the author of the former work. They also direct fresh attention to the sources upon which they drew. The history of the preparations made for the reception of the ark, and for its safe and religious escort into the city, is now proceeded with. These preparations occupied the three months, or part of the three months, spoken of in 1 Chronicles 13:14. The HOUSES may have been both his own ...

AND DAVID WAS CLOTHED WITH A ROBE OF FINE LINEN,.... For though a king, he, being among the singers, was clothed as they; for so it follows: AND ALL THE LEVITES THAT BARE THE ARK, AND THE SINGERS, AND CHENANIAH THE MASTER OF THE SONG; or of those that bore the burden, the ark, as the Targum: WITH THE SINGERS; all were clothed in robes of fine linen: DAVID ALSO HAD UPON HIM AN EPHOD OF LINEN; which he had besides his linen robe, and was over it; and being a shorter and tighter garment, it bound the other closer to him; though some think this is explanative of the former, and designs the same, and is what others, besides priests, were, on occasion, allowed to wear, see 1 Samuel 2:18....

1 _;_ 2. _And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God; and to minister unto him for ever._ It should not be carried upon a new cart, dragged by unwilling oxen but it should be borne upon the cheerful shoulders of the God-appointed bearers, the Levites. 1 Chronicles 15:3. _And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it. And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:_ Then follows the list of them, which we need not now read. 1 C

; 1 Chronicles 16:1 . THE ARK BROUGHT TO JERUSALEM CHAPTER 15:1-16:3 _ 1. The true preparation to fetch the ark (1 Chronicles 15:1)_ 2. The great procession (1 Chronicles 15:16) 3. The ark brought back (1 Chronicles 15:25; 1 Chronicles 16:1) The ark rested in the house of Obed-edom for three months. During that time David prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent.Warned by what had happened, his conscience aroused, David said, “None ought to

1 CHRONICLES 15:1 TO 1 CHRONICLES 16:43. THE BRINGING UP OF THE ARK TO JERUSALEM (_cf._ 2 Samuel 6:12_ a_). The account given by the Chronicler is much more elaborate, stress being laid on the part played by the priests and Levites; they are not mentioned in 2 S. 1 CHRONICLES 15:2. _Cf._ Numbers 1:50; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 7:9;...

AN EPHOD. Compare 2 Samuel 6:14....