Fifty thousand and three score and ten - This should be read as "seventy," omitting the "fifty thousand," which appears to have crept into t…

They had looked into the ark. — Some commentators consider that the words here should be rendered, “because they had looked at the…

And he smote the men of Bethshemesh
That is, God smote them, though they had received the ark with such expressions …

It is a great affront to God, for vain men to pry into and meddle with the secret things that do not belong to them (Deuteronomy 29:29;…