BAALE. The old Canaanite name of _Kirjath-jearim_. Compare 1 Samuel 6:21. 1Sa 7:2. 1 Chronicles 13:6. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. WHOSE NAME IS CALLED BY THE NAME. Some codices, with Aramaean and Vulgate, read "whereupon is called the name", &c. THE LORD OF HOSTS. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ Sebaioth. O... [ Continue Reading ]
A NEW CART. This was contrary to the Divinely prescribed law (Numbers 4:15; Numbers 7:9; Numbers 10:21.Deuteronomy 10:8; Joshua 3:14. Jos 15:24. 1 Chronicles 13:7; 1 Chronicles 15:2, &c.) When the Philistines did it in ignorance (1 Samuel 6:7) no judgment fell on them, because the Law o [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. INSTRUMENTS MADE OF FIR WOOD. The Septuagint reads "with all boldness and with songs". See 2 Samuel 6:14 and 1 Chronicles 13:8. According to Hebrew text "fir woods", put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Material) for instruments made from it. App-6. TIMBRELS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NACHON'S. Same as Chidon (1 Chronicles 13:9). HIS HAND. These words are contained in the Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate.... [ Continue Reading ]
ERROR. negligence.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE. BREACH. broke forth. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
PERTAINETH. Authorized Version (1611) reads "pertained". BROUGHT UP THE ARK. Compare 1 Chronicles 15:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIX PACES. See App-51. Compare 1 Chronicles 15:26.... [ Continue Reading ]
DANCED. This explains the subscription of Psalms 87, _Mahalath Leannoth_. dancing with shoutings. Compare 1 Chronicles 15:25. See App-65. _ The Psalms 87subscription reads:_ "A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth." See notes on Psalms 87:7. A LINEN EP... [ Continue Reading ]
LEAPING AND DANCING. See note on 2 Samuel 6:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
TABERNACLE _= 'ohel._ tent. Not the Tabernacle of Moses, which was at Gibeon, compare 1 Chronicles 16:39 (App-40), but the tent David had prepared on Zion (2 Samuel 7:1). Compare Psalms 132:3. OFFERED- offered up. App-43. PEACE OFFERINGS, which were for thanksgiving.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN... EVERY ONE. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. GOOD PIECE OF FLESH. Note, "of flesh" is in italics, following the Vulgate. Translate, "a measure [of' wine]". FLAGON OF WINE. Omit "flagon of wine", and render "a cake of raisins".... [ Continue Reading ]
DAUGHTER OF SAUL. Note this. It does not say "the wife of David". UNCOVERED. disrobed, referring to his royal robes.... [ Continue Reading ]
IT WAS. Omit these words and supply _Ellipsis_ by adding, with Septuagint, "Before Jehovah [did. dance]".... [ Continue Reading ]