2 Samuel 6:3

set the ark Lit. made the ark to ride.

upon a new cart Not desecrated by common uses. Cp. 1 Samuel 6:7. This was however a breach of the Levitical law, which prescribed that the Ark should be borne upon the shoulders of the Levites (Numbers 3:29-31; Numbers 7:9).

in Gibeah Rather, on the hill, as the same word is correctly translated in 1 Samuel 7:1. Some eminence in or near Kirjath-jearim is meant.

Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab The Ark had been in the house of Abinadab for seventy or eighty years twenty during the Philistine oppression, forty or fifty under Samuel and Saul, and perhaps ten of David's reign. See the Chronological Table in the Introd. to 1 Sam. p. 24.

As Eleazar the son of Abinadab was old enough to be entrusted with the charge of the Ark when it was placed in his father's house, we must clearly understand "sons" here in the wider sense of "descendants," grandsons or great-grandsons. Cp. ch. 2 Samuel 9:9.