Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 15:15
And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
15. the Levites bare upon their shoulders ] Num 1:50; Num 7:9.
the staves ] Exo 25:13-14.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 15. Upon their shoulders] That is the staves which went through the rings rested on their shoulders, but the ark itself rested on the staves like a sedan on its poles.
As Moses commanded] See Nu 4:5; Nu 4:15.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The children of the Levites, to wit, the Kohathites, Num 4:4.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders, with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the Lord. Not only bare it on their shoulders, but with the staves in it, which rested on their shoulders, see Nu 7:9, the reason of this command, that the ark should be carried on men’s shoulders, and not in any carriage, according to Maimonides h, was both for the honour of it, and lest its form and structure should be any ways damaged.
h Moreh Nevochim, par. 3. c. 45. p. 479.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(15) And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God.The priests and Levites, having purified themselves (1Ch. 15:14), duly and rightly discharged their sacred office of bearing the Ark. This statement anticipates 1Ch. 15:25, sqq. Such brief anticipative summaries of a series of events afterwards described in detail are very common in Hebrew narrative.
Upon their shoulders with the staves there-on.Literally, with their shoulder, with the poles upon themselves.
As Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.Num. 7:9; Num. 4:15; Exo. 25:13-15.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
as = according as.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
bare the ark: Exo 25:12, Exo 25:12-15, Exo 37:3-5, Exo 40:20, Num 4:6, Num 4:15, Num 7:9, 1Ki 8:8, 2Ch 5:9
Reciprocal: Exo 25:13 – General 2Sa 6:13 – when they 1Ch 13:10 – he put Psa 42:4 – for I