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1 Chronicles 13:5

1 Chronicles 13:5

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

So David gathered all Israel together,.... The principal of them, even 30,000 select men, 2Sa 6:1from Shihor of Egypt; or the Nile of Egypt, as the Targum and other Jewish writers, called Shihor from the blackness of its water, see though some think the river Rhinocurura is meant, which both lay to the south of the land of Israel:even unto the entering of Hamath; which the Targum interprets of Antiochia, which lay to the north of the land; so that this collection of the people was made from south to north, the extreme borders of the land:to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim; where it then was, and had been a long time, see 1Sa 7:1, from hence to the end of the chapter the account is the same with 2Sa 6:1, see the notes there; what little variations there are, are there observed.

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