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1 Chronicles 13:1 KJV
1 Chronicles · chapter 13 · verse 1
And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.1 Chronicles 13:1 · King James Version
1 Chronicles 13:1 in context
1And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
2And 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 in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
3And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- consultedyâʻatsto adviseH3289 →
- thousandsʼelephhence a thousandH505 →
- captainssara head personH8269 →
- hundredsmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- leadernâgîyda commander , civil, military or religiousH5057 →
- DavidDâvidDavid, the youngest son of JesseH1732 →
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Here is, I. David's pious proposal to bring up the ark of God to Jerusalem, that the royal city might be the holy city, Ch1 13:1-3. This part of the story we had not in Samuel. We may observe in this proposal, 1.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-8