2 Samuel 6:1

And again David gathered every chosen one in Israel—thirty thousand,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

In Context

2and David rises and goes, and all the people who [are] with him, from Ba‘ale-Judah, to bring up the Ark of God from there, whose name has been called—the Name of YHWH of Hosts, inhabiting the cherubim—on it.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 5:1And all the tribes of Israel come to David, to Hebron, and speak, saying, “Behold, we [are] your bone and your flesh;

1 Chronicles 13:1And David consults with the heads of the thousands and of the hundreds, [and] with every leader,

1 Chronicles 13:13And David has not turned aside the Ark to himself, to the City of David, and turns it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 6:1

The obscurity of the ark, during the reign of Saul, had been as great a grievance to Israel as the insults of the Philistines. David, having humbled the Philistines and mortified them in gratitude for that favour, and in pursuance of his designs for the public welfare, is here bringing up the ark to his own city, that it might be near him, and be an ornament and strength to his new foundation. Here is, I. An attempt to do it, which failed and miscarried. The design was well laid, ver. 1, 2 . But, 1. They were… Read the whole commentary →

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