Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 13:4
And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
Their consciences smiting them for their former negligence and being fully convinced of the piety and reasonableness of this proposition.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And all the congregation said that they would do so,…. They unanimously agreed to the motion:
for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people; they saw the propriety, necessity, and usefulness of it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
As the whole assembly approved of David’s design ( , it is to do so = so much we do), David collected the whole of Israel to carry it out. “The whole of Israel,” from the southern frontier of Canaan to the northern; but of course all are not said to have been present, but there were numerous representatives from every part, – according to 2Sa 6:1, a chosen number of 30,000 men. The , which is named as the southern frontier, is not the Nile, although it also is called (Isa 23:3 and Jer 2:18), and the name “the black river” also suits it (see Del. on Isaiah, loc. cit.); but is the before, i.e., eastward from Egypt ( ), i.e., the brook of Egypt, , the Rhinocorura, now el Arish, which in all accurate statements of the frontiers is spoken of as the southern, in contrast to the neighbourhood of Hamath, which was the northern boundary: see on Num 34:5. For the designation of the northern frontier, , see on Num 34:8. Kirjath-jearim, the Canaanitish Baalah, was known among the Israelites by the name Baale Jehudah or Kirjath-baal, as distinguished from other cities named after Baal, and is now the still considerable village Kureyeh el Enab; see on Jos 9:17. In this fact we find the explanation of , 1Ch 13:6: to Baalah, to Kirjath-jearim of Judah. The ark had been brought thither when the Philistines sent it back to Beth-shemesh, and had been set down in the house of Abinadab, where it remained for about seventy years; see 1 Sam 6 and 1Sa 7:1-2, and the remarks on 2Sa 6:3. is not to be translated “which is named name,” which gives no proper sense. Translating it so, Bertheau would alter into , according to an arbitrary conjecture of Thenius on 2Sa 6:2, “who there (by the ark) is invoked.” But were the true reading, it could not refer to the ark, but only to the preceding , since in the whole Old Testament the idea that by or at the resting-place of the ark Jahve was invoked (which would signify) nowhere occurs, since no one could venture to approach the ark. If referred to , it would signify that Jahve was invoked at Kirjath-baal, that there a place of worship had been erected by the ark; but of that the history says nothing, and it would, moreover, be contrary to the statement that the ark was not visited in the days of Saul. We must consequently reject the proposal to alter into as useless and unsuitable, and seek for another explanation: we must take in the sense of , which it sometimes has; cf. Ew. 333, a.: “as he is called by name,” where does not refer only to , but also to the additional clause , and the meaning is that Jahve is invoked as He who is enthroned above the cherubim; cf. Psa 80:2; Isa 37:16. – On the following 1Ch 13:7-14, cf. the commentary on 2Sa 6:3-11.
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(4) All the assembly said, So should we do (comp. for the construction 1Ch. 5:5; 1Ch. 9:25). The thing, the proposal.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
1Ch 13:4 And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
Ver. 4. And all the congregation said that they would do so. ] Jovianus the Emperor was wont to wish that he might govern wise men, and that wise men might govern him. David had this happiness.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the thing: 1Sa 18:20, 2Sa 3:36, 2Ch 30:4, *marg. Est 8:5
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1Ch 13:4-5. The thing was right in the eyes of all the people Their consciences smiting them for their former negligence, and being fully convinced of the piety and reasonableness of this proposal. So David gathered all Israel together All the chosen men of Israel, as it is expressed 2Sa 6:1, their elders and representatives. From Shihor of Egypt By which the Targum, and most of the Jews, understood the river Nile. It here stands for the southern bounds of the land of Canaan. Unto the entering of Hemath The northern boundary of the land.