31And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
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And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: …
Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 31-53)When the Levites were first ordained in the wilderness much of the work then appointed them lay in carrying and taking care of the tabernacle and the utensils of it, while they were in their march through the wilderness. In David’s time their number was increased; and, though the greater part of them was dispersed all the nation over, to teach the people the good knowledge of the Lord, yet those t…
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