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A Mistake in Method
Multiple commentators explain that putting the Ark on a cart was a significant mistake. God's law explicitly required that the Ark be carried on the shoulders of the Kohathite Levites (Numbers 7:9). The Israelites may have been copying the Philistines' method, but as Matthew Henry notes, God's people are held to a higher standard and were expected to follow His specific commands.
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2 Samuel
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Albert Barnes
On 2 Samuel 6:3
18th Century
Theologian
The house of Abinadab in Gibeah—rather, on the hill (as in the margin and 1 Samuel 7:1). It does not at all follow that Abinadab…
Charles Ellicott
On 2 Samuel 6:3
19th Century
Bishop
Upon a new cart. —The new cart, one which had been used for no other purpose, was undoubtedly intended as a mark of respe…
John Gill
On 2 Samuel 6:3
17th Century
Pastor
And they set the ark of God upon a new cart
Which was a great mistake, since it ought not to have been put upon a ca…
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Matthew Henry
On 2 Samuel 6:1–5
17th Century
Minister
God is present with the souls of His people when they lack the outward tokens of His presence; but now that David is settled on the throne, the hon…