Afraid of the Lord; <\/B>either that God was displeased with him for removing the ark, and bringing it to his city; or lest God should proceed further in the way of his judgments upon him and his people; or lest the ark being brought to his house, might be the occasion of inconveniencics and great calamities, for some neglects or errors which they might easily and frequently commit. <\/P>
How shall the ark of the Lord come unto me?<\/B> how may I presume, or how shall I dare do it, when God hath showed his displeasure for my attempting it? I will therefore wait further upon God for his direction in the case, and at present forbear. But why did not David consult God presently by the Urim, as he used to do? This therefore seems to have been his infirmity and neglect. <\/P> <\/p>\nFuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
9, 10. David was afraid of the Lordthat day,<\/B> &c.His feelings on this alarming judgment weregreatly excited on various accounts, dreading that the displeasure ofGod had been provoked by the removal of the ark, that the punishmentwould be extended to himself and people, and that they might fallinto some error or neglect during the further conveyance of the ark.He resolved, therefore, to wait for more light and direction as tothe path of duty. An earlier consultation by Urim would have led himright at the first, whereas in this perplexity and distress, he wasreaping the fruits of inconsideration and neglect.<\/P><\/p>\nFuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
And David was afraid of the Lord that day<\/strong>,…. Lest he should be smitten for his error also, and especially as he had discovered some resentment at the Lord’s dealing with Uzzah; when he ought to have been still and quiet, and submitted to the will of God, and owned his justice in it, confessed his own error, and been thankful for his sparing mercy vouchsafed to him:<\/p>\n and said, how shall the ark of the Lord come to me<\/strong>? the meaning of which is not, how it should be brought to the place provided by him in Jerusalem, now Uzzah was dead, for there were Levites enough to carry it, as they afterwards did; but as signifying that it would be either boldness and presumption in him to do it, since God had shown such a mark of his displeasure at their proceeding, that he might be in doubt whether it was the will of God it should come to him; or as fearing it would be dangerous to him to have it with him, since he might be guilty of such an error, of the same, or like it, that had been committed.<\/p>\n (9) David was afraid.<\/strong>The immediate effect of the judgment was to produce in David, and doubtless in all the people, that awe of the majesty of God in which they had shown themselves deficient. If this was at first excessive, it was soon moderated.<\/p>\n 9<\/strong>. <\/strong> Afraid <\/strong> Thrilled with fear and trembling lest the judgments of the Lord were not yet at an end, and all attempts to remove the ark into the city would now prove abortive.<\/p>\n ‘<\/strong> And David was afraid of YHWH that day; and he said, “How shall the ark of YHWH come to me?” ’ <\/p>\n But it also pulled David up short. It gave him a deeper recognition of what he himself was doing. It made him recognise that even he had been treating the coming of YHWH in a new way to Jerusalem too lightly, failing to consider the fact of what the arrival of the Ark in Jerusalem would undoubtedly have as it transformed people’s views about Jerusalem from then on. And he had not asked, Was that what YHWH really wanted? Now he could no longer be sure. Perhaps YHWH did not want the Ark carried into Jerusalem? The result was that he was filled with ‘the fear of YHWH’. He began to realise exactly what he had been doing. He began to recognise that he had been manipulating YHWH and bringing YHWH ‘to him’ for his own convenience. He had not been thinking of what would be honouring to YHWH. It was a salutary reminder to him that God was not at his disposal. We should note that even the Chronicler gives no hint that he had ‘enquired of YHWH’ before deciding to bring the Ark up to Jerusalem, rather than to the place which most would have expected, to the Tabernacle in Hebron (or Gibeon). Rather it is emphasised that he had ‘consulted with’ all the important people (1Ch 13:1<\/span>), and had discovered that ‘the thing was right in the eyes of all the people’ (1Ch 13:4<\/span>). But there is no hint anywhere of his having any consideration for what YHWH had thought or of His being consulted. <\/p>\n Thus with smitten conscience David brought proceedings to a halt. He would no longer take the Ark up to Jerusalem. Rather he would wait on God’s instructions and on God’s will. He himself had thus been given a new appreciation of the significance of the Ark, and of what its presence meant. It was clear from what had occurred that YHWH was displeased. So he cried, ‘How shall the Ark of YHWH come to me?’ This may have been signifying that he now recognised that he was unworthy that the Ark of YHWH should come to his capital city, or that the capital city was unworthy to receive the Ark (after all the place to which he was taking it had until recently been a pagan citadel) or it may have been questioning what method should be used in order to make it possible in a way that was pleasing to God, if it were even possible. <\/p>\n (9) And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? (10) So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite. (11) And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n David’s humbleness and holy fear was proper on this occasion; but his want of faith was again reprehensible. This is but a short character given of Obed-edom, but it is a sweet one. Reader! the ark evidently typified Christ. Whoever presumes to think, like Uzzah, that the Ark of God is in danger; that this poor arm of flesh can help Jesus; like Uzzah, presumes, and like Uzzah, will die. But, whoever like Obed-edom, receives a whole Christ into his house, into his heart; the Lord Jehovah will bless that man, that house, that family, for Jesus’s sake. Oh! precious Redeemer! come thou and make thy abode in my house, my heart, and all that belong to me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n 2Sa 6:9 And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?<\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Ver. 9. And David was afraid of the Lord that day.<\/strong> ] Poena ad paucos, rectus ad omnes.<\/em> David, considering how ill the Philistines had sped first, for their miscarriage toward the ark, and then the Bethshemites, and now Uzzah, was himself at a great stand, and forbore to deal further in a matter so dangerous; but this was his infirmity; though some will have it to be his humility. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?<\/strong> ] He looketh at himself through Uzzah, as good cause he had: but why should he fear to take home the ark to him? Do not God’s ordinances “do good to him that walketh uprightly?” Mic 2:7 <\/p>\n afraid: Num 17:12, Num 17:13, 1Sa 5:10, 1Sa 5:11, 1Sa 6:20, Psa 119:120, Isa 6:5, Luk 5:8, Luk 5:9, 1Pe 3:6 <\/p>\n How shall: 1Ki 8:27, 1Ch 13:11, 1Ch 13:12, Job 25:5, Job 25:6 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 1Sa 5:7 – The ark 1Sa 16:4 – trembled 1Ch 21:30 – he was afraid Mat 25:25 – General Luk 8:37 – besought Luk 19:21 – because Act 19:17 – and fear<\/p>\n THE ARKBANE AND BLESSING<\/p>\n How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?<\/p>\n 2Sa 6:9<\/p>\n When David was king of Israel, he resolved to have the ark brought to Jerusalem. So he went down to Baale with a great company, that the return might be made in seemly fashion. And with the ark set on a new cart, with Uzzah beside it, and Ahio leading the oxen, the journey to Jerusalem was begun. Observe that to conduct the ark that way was a violation of the command of God. God had forbidden the carting of the ark, and had expressly ordered that it should be carried.<\/p>\n I. All that follows should impress on us, that not only is it for us to do Gods will, but we must seek to do it in Gods way.At Nachans threshing-floor the oxen strainedturning aside after the scattered cornand Uzzah, as the cart pitched and jolted, put out his hand to seize the ark and steady it. Nothing could have been better meant; nothing could have been more flatly disobedient. It was against Gods law to touch the ark, or even to look at it till it was coveredand God was angry at this disobedience, and He smote Uzzah that he died. Remark how one sin leads to another sin. Had there been no cart, there would have been no jolting. It was the disobedience at the outset of the journey that made possible the disobedience on the road. It is well to be true to God in our beginnings if we wish a prosperous journey by and by.<\/p>\n II. Note how familiarity may breed contempt.The action of Uzzah to us seems very harmless, and the punishment which he suffered very sore. But as a thread of gossamer shows how the wind is blowing, so do our little actions show our character. It was not, I think, for a mere touch of the hand that Uzzah was thus visited of God. It was rather for the state of heart and temper which this momentary act revealed. For long years he had dwelt beside the ark. It had had a lodgment in his fathers house right through his happy days of boyhood, a very familiar object, until at last the awe it should have stirred, and the reverence wherewith it should have been regarded, had come to be very dull in Uzzahs heart. He had ceased to think of the ark as something holy. He had wellnigh forgotten it was the rest of God. He had come to reckon it as an antiquity that must be fended like any other chest. And it was this irreverence and lack of awe, revealing itself in an action that was trifling, that kindled the wrath of Jehovah against Uzzah. All this should warn us against that familiarity which, as the proverb says, begets contempt. It is the peril of those who dwell in a Christian land, and who are surrounded with the privileges of the Gospel. The Bible and the sanctuarythese have been beside us since our childhood. Let us be very watchful that we never think of them as Uzzah had come to think about the ark.<\/p>\n III. Note that the ark is a guest that no man loses by.That is a lesson we should learn from Obed-edom. Into his house the ark of God was brought, and everything prospered with Obed-edom from that hour. The Jews have a legend that he had been very poor, but that immediately thereafter he grew rich; and while that is only a legend, yet at the heart of it it bears the truth. For everything was different with Obed-edom now. He felt that God in His mercy had come near him. When he woke in the morning, God was in his dwelling; when he retired to rest, his Lord was there; and every time he came home from field or village, and every time he had worship with his children, there flashed on him, in overpowering vividness, the knowledge that Thou God seest me. All this made a new man of Obed-edom. The little sins that wrought such havoc before were banished now from Obed-edoms home. And the result of it all was that Obed-edom prospered, and began to flourish like a palm tree by the river, and it all dated from that memorable hour when he received the ark into his home.<\/p>\n Illustrations<\/p>\n (1) There is a story of a stranger who came to a poor cottage, and who said, There is a treasure in this cottage. And the cottars searched for it, till on a dusty shelf they lit on an old and long-neglected Bible. That Bible, studied again, became a treasure, as did the ark in the house of Obed-edom, and as the presence of God does wherever it is welcomed.<\/p>\n (2) A godly household is the place in which to see religion at its best and truest. What a blessing the ark brings with it. Communion with God, the prayer morning and evening, the family altar, the acknowledgment of God at the meal, piety at home, these ensure a wonderful harvest of peace and happiness. Godliness is great gain. Only three months did the ark shelter in the house of Obed-edom, and yet as long as the Bible is read this silver lining shall fringe the dark cloud of Divine displeasure. The Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all his household. <\/p>\n (3) In Ruskins Ethics of the Dust, the old lecturer sternly rebukes one of his hearers, because she is afraid of hindering instead of helping Gods work by misplaced or wavering zeal. Do you suppose, he asks, that you can thwart in the least degree the plans of God? Is not this an only too common form of the sin of Uzzah? It is as irreverent to withhold as to stretch forth the hand for fear of accident to Gods plans.<\/p>\n 2Sa 6:9. David was afraid of the Lord that day Apprehensive, it seems, that he himself was in danger. Hence he durst not bring the ark into his city; either thinking, in great humility, that he was unworthy to have it so near him; or that he did not sufficiently understand how to treat it. This, however, he understood better afterward, as we learn from 1Ch 15:2-15.<\/p>\n And David was afraid of the LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me? Afraid of the Lord; either that God was displeased with him for removing the ark, and bringing it to his city; or lest God should proceed further in the way of his judgments upon … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 2 Samuel 6:9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
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