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1And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.

1 Chronicles 13:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 2 Chronicles 34:29-30

    Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. …

  • 2 Kings 23:1

    And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:20

    As he went to Ziklag, there fell to him of Manasseh, Adnah, and Jozabad, and Jediael, and Michael, and Jozabad, and Elihu, and Zilthai, captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh.

  • 2 Chronicles 29:20

    Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house of the LORD.

  • 1 Chronicles 12:14

    These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here is, I. David’s pious proposal to bring up the ark of God to Jerusalem, that the royal city might be the holy city, 1 Chron. 13:1-3. This part of the story we had not in Samuel. We may observe in this proposal, 1. That as soon as David was well seated on his throne he had thoughts concerning the ark of God: Let us bring the ark to us , 1 Chron. 13:3. Two things he aimed at herein:—(1.) To do h…

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