The contents of this chapter are the same with 2 Sam. 6:1–11, only David’s consultation with the principal men of Israel concerning the affair herein transacted is premised in the first four verses of this.

And David consulted with the captains of thousands, and hundreds, and with every leader. ] With the chiliarchs and centurions, and every officer in that large body of armed men in every tribe, who met to make and crown him king: for at that time was this consultation had, and therefore is connected…

And David said unto all the congregation of Israel To the above persons, as representatives of it: if it seem good unto you, and that it be of the Lord our God; if it could be thought by them a good and useful thing, and agreeable to the will of God, and would make for his glory: let us send abroad…

And let us bring again the ark of our God to us The symbol of the divine Presence, than which nothing was more desirable to David, and he chose to begin his reign overall Israel with it: for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul; he being indifferent to religion, and careless about it, and the…

And all the congregation said that they would do so They unanimously agreed to the motion: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people; they saw the propriety, necessity, and usefulness of it.

So David gathered all Israel together The principal of them, even 30,000 select men, from Shihor of Egypt; or the Nile of Egypt, as the Targum and other Jewish writers, called Shihor from the blackness of its water, see though some think the river Rhinocurura is meant, which both lay to the south…

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).

(See Gill on 1 Chron. 13:5).