27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
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But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 25-29)All things being got ready for the carrying of the ark to the city of David, and its reception there, we have here an account of the solemnity of this conveyance thither from the house of Obed-edom. I. God helped the Levites that carried it. The ark was no very great burden, that those who carried it needed any extraordinary help. But, 1. It is good to take notice of the assistance of the divine p…
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