1 Chronicles 15:5

_OF THE SONS OF KOHATH; URIEL THE CHIEF, AND HIS BRETHREN AN HUNDRED AND TWENTY:_ No JFB commentary on these verses....

1-24 Wise and good men may be guilty of oversights, which they will correct, as soon as they are aware of them. David does not try to justify what had been done amiss, nor to lay the blame on others; but he owns himself guilty, with others, of not seeking God in due order...

THE SONS OF KOHATH - The order of the sons of Levi according to primogeniture is, Gershom, Kohath, Merari Genesis 46:11; Exodus 6:16. But the Kohathites, of whom came the priestly family of the Aaronites, had precedence in all respects. To them especially was committed the attendance upon the ark and the bearing of it. Of the six Levitical families mentioned 1 Chronicles 15:5 one only was descended from Gershom, one from Merari, and four (Uriel, Elizaphan, Hebron, and Uzziel) from Kohath....

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 ...

1 Chronicles 15:4....

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;...

SONS OF KOHATH. Of the six Ark-carriers, four were chosen from Kohath, one from Merari, and one from Gershom....

_the sons of Kohath: Uriel_ Kohath had four sons (Exodus 6:18 = 1 Chronicles 6:18) Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Here the descendants of Amram (exclusive of the priests, the Aaronites) represented by Uriel head the list (1 Chronicles 15:5), and the descendants of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel appear in 1 Chronicles 15:8-10 respectively. _Elizaphan_(1 Chronicles 15:8), either stands for the _Izhar_of Exodus 6:18, or is the nam