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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim. And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when they came unto the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. I suppose that Uzza, through the ark having been so long in his father’s house, had grown...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David was displeased, because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzza; wherefore that place is called Perezuzza to this day. And. David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? He was afraid lest he also might die.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite. He must have been a brave, believing man, to be willing to receive the terrible ark into his house; but he probably knew that, so long as he behaved reverentially to it, he would have a blessing, and not a curse, through...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the ark of God remained with the family of Obededom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obededom, and all that he had. (This exposition consisted of readings from 1 Chronicles 13, and 1Ch_15:1-4; 1Ch_15:11-16; 1Ch_15:25-29.)
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it. And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: Then follows the list of them, which we need not now read.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, and said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD. And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites. — For, though the ark was by no means a great load, yet they must have felt some measure of alarm at the very idea of going near to it;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
That bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. There is no mention of any sacrifice on the precious occasion. If there had been a proper offering of beasts unto the Lord, there might not have been the death of Uzza; but, now, they do everything in the right order, and the sacrificial blood is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And 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. Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the cornet and with trumpets, and with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart. So have I known it, when a rich person has been converted, and has been found, in the first hush of his Christian joy, mixing with the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel. Israel had greatly offended and grieved God, and it was to be punished. God punished one sin by another: the sin of David works for the chastisement of a sinful people.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know it. He had got proud, he had begun to depend upon the number of his people. In truth, it was a large population under his sway, five millions or more, and he, that had been a shepherd lad, that...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God. It is very observable, not the Israelites, but the foreigners, the aliens, the strangers, the remaining Canaanites that were in the land, were set to hew the stones for the house of the Lord. I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many more as they be: but, my lord, the king, are they not all my lord’s servants? why then doth my lord require this thing? why will he be a cause of trespass to Israel? It adds greatly to a wrong action if we are checked in it, and especially if we are checked in it by a man who has...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the joinings; and brass in abundance without weight; Also cedar trees in abundance: for the Zidonians and they of Tyre brought much cedar wood to David. Here, again, was a kind of prophecy of what would happen in better days, when the poor Gentiles should be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Nevertheless the king’s word prevailed against Joab. Wherefore Joab departed, and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem. And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. There is no way of helping young people to serve God like setting them a good example. Let the father feel, with regard to...