1 Samuel 7:1

1 Samuel 7:1. into the house of Abinadab in the hill On the hill, some eminence in or near the town. In 2 Samuel 6:4-5, the E. V. wrongly takes the same word as a proper name, "in Gibeah."

Abinadab was probably (as Josephus says) a Levite: for the Israelites would scarcely have ventured to violate the law by entrusting the Ark to a layman after the late judgment.

sanctified Eleazar Consecrated him and set him apart for the special duty. "Nothing is said of Eleazar's consecration as priest… He was constituted not priest, bat watchman at the grave of the Ark, by its corpse, until its future joyful resurrection."

The words of Psalms 132:6, "We found it in the fields of the wood," refer to this sojourn of the Ark at Kirjath-jearim. The word translated "wood" is jaar, which is the singular of jearim.