The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Chronicles — Section 237

CHAPTER XV. it in this tent in J eruso.lem. It ie no more sheltered in the tabernacle. But the ta- Ver. 1.-The contents of this verse and bernacle, as well o.s the ark, was ultimo.tely the following ..-erses up to the twenty-fifth brought to the new-built temple of Solomon have no po.rallel in the Book of Samuel, (1 Kings viii. 4; eh, ix. 19; 2 Chron. i. 4). and excite snggestion respecting the dif- Ver. 2.-This verse together with vers. ferent objects with which the compiler of 12-15 show that the severe lesson of the Chronicles wrote, as compared with those destruction of U zzah he.d been lo.id to heart, of the o.uthor of the former work. They and had made Do.vid supremely anxious to also direct fresh attention to the sources to.ke better counsel of the Lo.w. Uzzah, upon which they drew. The history of the thouih po•sibly the son of a Levite, more prepo.ro.tions ma.de for the reception of the probnbly of o. Hivite (Josh. ix. 7, 17), wns o.rk, nnd for its safe and religious escort not a priest, nor is there any sulllcieut into the oity, is now proceeded with. These evir!ence thnt he wo.s a Levite; nnd most prepo.rntious ocoupied the three months, or distinct wo.s the order of the Lo.w (Numb. po.rt of the three months, spoken of in eh. i. 51-53; iii. 29-32; iv. 15-20), thnt xiii, 14. Tho houses may have been both "when the tabemncle setteth forward, the his own (oh. xiv, I) and the buildings Levites shull take it down; o.nd when the refoned to in oh. x:i. 8 o.nd 2 So.m. v. 9. The tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shnll old tent, or tabernacle, is repeatedly alluded set it up; aud the stranger that cometh to, as in oh. xvi. 39; 2 Chron. i. 3. It will be nigh Fhall be put to dco.th." So the sons remembered tho.t the taberno.clo esto.blished of Kohath are to come to bear the so.uctuury by Joshua at Shiloh remo.ine,l there till the with all its so.cred vessels, "but they sho.11 time of Eli, e.nd the o.rk within it (I So.m. not touch o.ny holy thing, lest they die.'' iii. 3). Afterwo.rds we find it removed to lllany things were 111lowed to bo c11rried ou Nob, for there Do.vid nto the shewbrend waggons undor tho charge of tho Gershonites (1 Sam. xxi. 6). From thence, very possibly and Merarites, but the strict contents of lhe after tho so.vo.ge slaughter of the priests by se.nctuary were to be borne in a specified the order of Se.ul, it wus removed, und wo manner by tho Kohathites. find it at Gibeon, accorcliug to the o.bove refer- Ver. 3.-All Israel; i.e. as before, repre- ences. Here o.t Gibeon wus o.n o.lto.r and sentatives of o.11 Israel. So vcr. 25 decides: "high plo.ce," whicb, in the earlier t,1.me of " The ol,lers of Israel, o.nd the cnpto.ins over Solomon, formed the chief religious centre. thousands, went. to bring up the o.rk of the The wanderings of the o.rk o.lreaily given covenant of the Lord." from Shiloh, through Philistin to Deth-she- Vera. 4-11.-This clussifico.tion of the lllesh, Kirj11th-jParim, Perez-uzzah, now lo.nd ohildren of Aaron, O,S the spel'ial priests,  232 THE FIRST BOOK OF TIIE CRnONICLES. (arr. xv. 1-29.