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6:11 The ark paid well for its entertainment. -4Mat- thew Henry. Have you family worship in your dwelling? Try it and you will find that God will deal well with you through it, as of old he dealt with Obed-edom when the ark was in his house.-^-William M. Taylor. 6:15 The second attempt was successful because the Levitical law was obeyed (see 1 Chron. 15:1-14), an in cidental evidence that this law had been recorded, though overlooked. This, so far, answers the destructive criticism which would relégate the Pentateuch to a later period than Dávid.—Gray.
5:6 It was strongly fortified, and deemed so Impregn able that the blind and lame were sent to man the battle ments, in derisive mockery of the Hebrew king’s attack, and to shout, “ David cannot come in hither.” -—J. F. & B. 5:7 This is the first time “ Zion” is COMMENTS referred to, and it is well to identify it FBOM THE as the southwest hill of Jerusalem, the COMMENTARIES older and higher part of the city. It V. V. Morgan was here that later David brought the ark of the covenant, from which time the hill became sacred. After the building of the temple by Solomon on Mount Moriah, a different eminence, and the transfer of the ark thither, the name “ Zion” was ex tended to comprehend it also (Isa. 8:18; Joel 3:17; Micah 4 :7). Often it is used, however, for the whole of Jerusa lem (2 Kgs. 19:21), occasionally for the Jewish, system of religion (Psa. 126:1), and once at least for heaven (Heh. 12:22).—! ELEMENTARY Mrs. S. W. Barrett Scripture: II Samuel 6. Memory verses: John 14:3; 24th Psalm. If some one you love very much has been away from you for a long, long time, aren’t you glad when you know they are coming to you again. And when they do come don’t you just jump up and down and clap your hands for joy? Don’t you? Do you know that after we give our hearts to the Lord Jesus, every time we think that He is coming again, we just want to shout. And the Lord Jesus said He was surely coming, He said, “ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.” Isn’t that wonderful! And today God tells us in the Bible how glad King David was when he brought the Ark of God — (which represented the Lord Jesus in those days)— to his home in Jerusalem. Lesson Story THE SONG OF THE KING OF GLORY King David’s heart was sad. Even as he looked upon the beautiful city of Jerusalem, where he had made his home since all the people of his country had accepted him as their king, he could not be entirely happy. As he looked from the windows of his beautiful castle, which his friend, Hiram, King of Tyre, had built for him, he could see the mountains which seemed to surround the city with such protecting strength, perhaps it was then he thought of the beautiful *verse, “ As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people!” King David’s soul longed for God, and as he listened to the twit tering of the swallows which may have nested in the ceiling of the balcony, he may have thought that they, too, longed for God, for their song held a sad note like the sobbing of a child. King David’s thoughts must have turned to the old taber nacle where God dwelt among his people in the beautiful pillar of cloud which rested between the cherubims of the Ark of God in the Holy Place of the Tabernacle, for at last King David summoned to his presence the great leaders of his nation and he said to them, “ Let us bring again the Ark of our God to us, for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.” The people gladly consented and King David was accompanied by great crowds of people to a little town not far from Jerusalem where the Ark had been left in the home of a priest. ' • On one of the hills in the midst of the city, King David had prepared a great tent of curtains so that the Ark of God should rest in a Holy Place, and he called_ all the
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