11And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,
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And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.
And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David. …
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
And Sheva was scribe: and Zadok and Abiathar were the priests:
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-24)Preparation is here made for the bringing of the ark home to the city of David from the house of Obed-edom. It is here owned that in the former attempt, though it was a very good work and in it they sought God , yet they sought him, not after the due order , 1 Chron. 15:13. “We did not go about our work considerately; and therefore we sped so ill.” Note, It is not enough that we do that which is g…
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