_WHILE THE ARK IS CARRIED FROM THE HOUSE OF ABINADAB TOWARDS ZION, UZZAH TOUCHETH IT, AND DIES. THE ARK IS BROUGHT TO THE HOUSE OF OBED-EDOM; AND AFTERWARDS INTO THE NEW CITY. DAVID DANCETH BEFORE THE ARK, AND IS DERIDED BY HIS WIFE MICHAL._... [ Continue Reading ]
_Before Christ 1044._ _2 SAMUEL 6:1. AGAIN DAVID GATHERED TOGETHER ALL THE CHOSEN MEN,_ &C.— _Afterwards David levied yet thirty thousand men, the chosen strength of Israel; i.e._ thirty thousand more than he had before his late victory over the Philistines. Houb.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM BAALE OF JUDAH— _Baale_ is the same city which in Judges 15:60 is called _Kirjath-baal,_ or Kirjath-jearim. See 1 Chronicles 13:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
ON ALL MANNER OF INSTRUMENTS MADE OF FIR-WOOD— In the Hebrew, _on all fir-wood._ In the parallel place, 1 Chronicles 13:8 it is, _with all their might, and with singing,_ which is in all respects the preferable reading: for the word עצי _atzei,_ translated _fir-wood,_ is not used for musical instrum... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN THEY CAME TO NACHON'S THRESHING-FLOOR— The word נכון _Nachon_ is used by way of anticipation, in allusion to the fate of Uzzah; for נחה _nakah,_ signifies _to smite,_ and נכון nachon, the _act_ of _smiting._ In 1 Chronicles 13:9 it is called _the threshing-floor of Chidon,_ which conveys the sa... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD SMOTE HIM THERE FOR HIS ERROR, &C.— "The ark," says Dr. Chandler, "ought not to have been drawn by oxen, but carried by the Levites on their shoulders, as we find it afterwards, 2 Samuel 6:13. Beside this, the Levites were prohibited from touching the ark, under the express penalty of death, Num... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DAVID WAS DISPLEASED— Rather _was afflicted; was much distressed._ REFLECTIONS.—1. Every stroke upon others for their sin, should be a warning to us to repent of our own. 2. If the breach between the broken law of a holy God, and a sinful soul, be not healed by the Lord Jesus Christ, an everlast... [ Continue Reading ]
DAVID DANCED BEFORE THE LORD— David's behaviour in this particular was no disparagement to his regal dignity. His dancing, that is, his moving in certain solemn measures, suited to music of the same character and tendency, was an exercise fully justifiable in him. Piety taught David, that all men ar... [ Continue Reading ]
FLAGON OF WINE— _Draught of wine._ Hiller. 332. REFLECTIONS.—The blessing of the ark on Obed-edom and his house soon reached the ears of David; and now his fears are removed, and his desires return to have the ark with him at Jerusalem. Hereupon once more he attempts to remove it, and through the D... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO UNCOVERED HIMSELF TO-DAY— The original word נגלה _niglah,_ which we render _uncovering himself,_ does not mean exposing any part of the body to view, and is, I believe, never used in that sense, without some other word to determine it to that meaning. And as, in the parallel place, 1 Chronicles... [ Continue Reading ]
IT WAS BEFORE THE LORD— _I uncovered myself before the Lord._ Houb. Who renders the last clause of the verse, _therefore have I rejoiced before the Lord._ The Hebrew word, שׂחקתי _sichakti,_ according to Chandler, refers to David's playing like the rest of the people on some musical instrument, as i... [ Continue Reading ]
I WILL YET BE MORE VILE—AND—BASE— The words נקלתי _nekalloti,_ and שׁפל _shapal,_ which, we render _vile_ and _base,_ by no means convey the ideas which those English words convey. The first is twice rendered in our version by _despised;_ Genesis 16:4. The almost constant sense of the latter is _hum... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE MICHAL, THE DAUGHTER OF SAUL, HAD NO CHILD, &C.— Either neglected from henceforth by David, or, as is more probable, immediately punished by God himself, Michal had no children from this time till the day of her death; or rather, as the Jews say, with whom Bishop Patrick agrees, she never... [ Continue Reading ]