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Why Not Go to Gibeon?
Commentators explain that this verse is a parenthetical note answering a key question: why didn't David go to the official Tabernacle to offer sacrifices? The verse clarifies that the Tabernacle and the lawful altar were at Gibeon, which was too far away during the urgent crisis of the plague.
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1 Chronicles
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Charles Ellicott
On 1 Chronicles 21:29–30
19th Century
Bishop
A parenthesis, relating why David did not instead go to the ancient Tabernacle, which then stood at Gibeon. (Compare to [Reference 1 Chronicles 16:…
John Gill
On 1 Chronicles 21:29
17th Century
Pastor
For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses made
Or ordered to be made by the command of God, and according to his d…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Chronicles 21:1–30
17th Century
Minister
No mention is made in this book of David's sin in the matter of Uriah, nor of the troubles that followed it, for they had no necessary connection w…