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1 Chronicles

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David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. See also: 2 Chronicles 29:20 2 Chronicles 34:29-30 2 Kings 23:1David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us. See also: 1 Samuel 31:1 Numbers 4:4-20 Isaiah 37:4Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.” See also: 1 Samuel 7:1-2 1 Samuel 23:2 1 Samuel 14:36All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. See also: 2 Chronicles 30:4 1 Samuel 18:20 Esther 8:5So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim. See also: 1 Samuel 6:21 2 Samuel 6:1 1 Kings 8:65David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God the LORD’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name. See also: Exodus 25:22 2 Samuel 6:2-11 2 Kings 19:15They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. See also: Numbers 4:15 1 Samuel 7:1-2 2 Samuel 6:3David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets. See also: Psalms 150:3-5 2 Samuel 6:5-23 1 Chronicles 23:5When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled. See also: 2 Samuel 6:6The LORD’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God. See also: 1 Chronicles 15:15 1 Chronicles 15:13 Numbers 4:15David was displeased, because the LORD had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day. See also: 2 Samuel 6:7 2 Samuel 6:9 Deuteronomy 34:6David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?” See also: Psalms 119:120 1 Samuel 5:10-11 Job 25:5-6So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house. See also: 1 Chronicles 15:18 1 Chronicles 26:4 2 Samuel 6:10-11God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had. See also: 1 Chronicles 26:4-5 Proverbs 10:22 Proverbs 3:9-10

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Notes · Haydock (1859, public domain)9 notes

Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.

These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity

1 Chronicles 13:1

Ver. 1. Consulted. David wished to give religion due splendour and authority, in his dominions; and he prudently contrives to obtain the general consent. H. ---

"Where there is no liberty, there is no religion;" and no change in religious matters should be attempted, without the consent of the Church. C.

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1 Chronicles 13:2

Ver. 2. To us. In the first assembly, David's motion was adopted, and a more general meeting, particularly of the priests, was convoked. H.

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1 Chronicles 13:3

Ver. 3. Sought. Prot. "inquired not at it." Yet it is certain that many resorted to the ark, at that time. But is was not treated with such honours as David now wished. H.

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1 Chronicles 13:5

Ver. 5. Emath, from "the troubled river" Nile, (Jos. xiii. 3. C.) or Rhinocorura, (T.

M.) to the northern extremities of the promised land, (H.) near Emesa.

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1 Chronicles 13:6

Ver. 6. Hill. Heb. "to Baalah," which was another name, as well as "Baslim," for Cariathiarim. 1

K. vii. 2. C.

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1 Chronicles 13:7

Ver. 7. Brother. Heb. "Acho," which has the same meaning. T. --- Sept. Syr. &c.

"his brethren."

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1 Chronicles 13:9

Ver. 9. Chidon. Alias, Nachon. Ch. 2 K. vi. --- He had perhaps two names. D. ---

Syr. and Arab. "of Ramim." C. --- The ox. Prot. "the oxen stumbled."

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1 Chronicles 13:11

Ver. 11. Divided. Slain. See C. xiv. 11. 1 K. xv. 32. and 2 K. vi. 7. H. --- The soul of brutes perishes; that of man is only divided from the body by death.

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1 Chronicles 13:13

Ver. 13. Obededom. A Levite was judged more proper to guard the ark. C. xv.

18. --- Gethite.

Because he had dwelt in Geth. W.

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License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses

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