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Chapter 13 mostly mirrors chapter 6 in II Samuel. David, now the king over all of Israel, decides to bring the Ark of the Covenant up from the house of Abinadab. Along the way up, the oxen stumble and the Ark slides in the wagon. Uzzah reaches out to brace it, but God is furious that he thought the ark could fall and God strikes him down. The procession is halted at the house of Obed-Edom. God blesses the house of Obed-Edom during the three months it remains there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There are two distinct elements missing from each of the two chapters. The first is David\u2019s speech to the people charging them to bring the Ark up to Jerusalem. II Samuel 6 has no such speech. David simply brings his men with him to retrieve the Ark. I Chronicles 13, however, does have David\u2019s speech:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDavid said to the entire assembly of Israel, \u2018If you approve, and if the LORD our God concurs, let us send far and wide to our remaining kinsmen throughout the territories of Israel, including the priests and Levites in the towns where they have pasturelands, that they should gather together to us, in order to transfer the Ark of our God to us, for throughout the days of Saul we paid no regard to it\u2019\u201d (verses 2-3).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This speech again fits the paradigm of Chronicles versus Samuel. David\u2019s speech here is clearly made to show two things. The first is that the entire House of Israel follows him. He calls for his remaining kinsman through the territories to gather and bring up the Ark. The second piece is the insult to the house of Saul: \u201cfor throughout the days of Saul we paid no regard to it.\u201d This partisan speech was either added later or was seen as too partisan for the author of the book of Samuel.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second missing element is in II Samuel but not in I Chronicles. When the Ark is in the house of Obed-Edom God blesses the family. In II Samuel 6:12 we learn that \u201cIt was reported to King David: \u2018The LORD has blessed Obed-Edom\u2019s house and all that belongs to him because of the Ark of God.\u2019 Thereupon David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David, amid rejoicing.\u201d (This motivation does appear, however, in II Chronicles).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Chapter 15 of I Chronicles, though, David simply builds a tent for the Ark in Jerusalem and resumes the procession. Perhaps the author of I Chronicles was concerned that this motivation would reflect poorly on David. In context, David must have seen the blessing as a sign that God was no longer displeased from the incident of Uzzah. However, one could also interpret it that David only cared about moving the Ark for the blessing, so it was removed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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This chapter reprises 2 Samuel 6\u2019s description of King David\u2019s transfer of the Holy Ark to Jerusalem and the celebration that accompanied it. Two points of correspondence are of particular interest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First, is the description of the Ark itself as: \u201cThe Ark of God, the L<\/span>ORD<\/span>, Enthroned on the Cherubim, to which the Name was attached\u201d (6). Alter, whose own translation varies but slightly (\u201cWhose name is called upon it\u201d), noted: \u201cThis translation is conjectural, attempting to unpack the three cryptic Hebrew words that are literally \u2018that is called a name\u2019 (<\/span>asher nikra shem)<\/span><\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 The means of decryption are available via intertextuality. The parallel verse reads, inversely: \u201cThe Ark of God to which the Name was attached, the name L<\/span>ORD<\/span> of Hosts Enthroned on the Cherubim\u201d (2 Samuel 6:2).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Next, there is the matter of the musical accompaniment. Here is a comparison between the two verses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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1 Chronicles 13:8<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David and all Israel danced before God with all their might (<\/span>b\u2019khol `oz<\/span><\/em>)\u2014with songs (<\/span>b\u2019shirim<\/span><\/em>), lyres, harps, timbrels, cymbals, and trumpets.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0(<\/span>\u05d1\u05db\u05dc \u05e2\u05d6 \u05d5\u05d1\u05e9\u05d9\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

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2 Samuel 6:5<\/span><\/p>\r\n

David and all the House of Israel danced before the L<\/span>ORD<\/span> to [the sound of] all kinds of cypress wood [instruments] (<\/span>b\u2019khol atzei b\u2019roshim<\/span><\/em>) with lyres, harps, timbrels, sistrums, and cymbals.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(<\/span>\u05d1\u05db\u05dc \u05e2\u05e6\u05d9 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u05e9\u05d9\u05dd)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Note that the critical difference between the two involves two linguistic changes: The reading of <\/span>oz<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>\u05e2\u05d6<\/span>) instead of <\/span>atzei<\/span><\/em> (<\/span>\u05e2\u05e6\u05d9<\/span>), and the metathesis (inversion) of <\/span>b-r-sh<\/span><\/em> and <\/span>b-sh-r<\/span><\/em>. Here\u2019s the challenge. Which reading of the Hebrew text makes more sense in context<\/span>? <\/span>Each of the two expressions appears one more time in Tanakh. <\/span>B\u2019khol `oz<\/span><\/em> is in the same chapter in 2 Samuel where it describes the manner in which King David personally \u201cwhirled (<\/span>m\u2019kharker<\/span><\/em>) before the Lord\u201d (v.14), while <\/span>atzei b\u2019roshim<\/span><\/em> were used in the manufacture of a pair of doors that led to the Temple, according to 1 Kings 6:34.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

My sense is that David and company used instruments made of \u201ccypress wood\u201d as indicated in 2 Samuel, and that the manner in which they employed them was \u201cwith all their might.\u201d The Chronicler combined the two for the sake of brevity, just as his list of their musical instruments is similarly abbreviated. As supporting evidence, I would cite 1 Chronicle 15:29, which describes David\u2019s personal reception as \u201cleaping and dancing,\u201d employing the same verb used here (<\/span>m\u2019sachakim<\/span><\/em>) rather than the \u201cwhirling\u201d of 2 Samuel 6.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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13:5 \u201cAnd David assembled all Israel from Shihor in Egypt to Lebo-Hamath to bring the Ark of God from Kiriath-Jearim.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This phrase, which has no counterpart in 2 Samuel 6, is an extravagant rhetorical gesture, for in David\u2019s time there was scarcely an Israelite population in Egypt, and Lebo-Hamath (\u201cthe approach to Hamath\u201d) is probably too far north for Israelites at this time.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Comp lit<\/em>. The story of bringing up the ark and the death of Uzza can be found in 2 Sam 6. The rest of the story of the journey of the ark - which we will read about in chapters 15 and 16 - is also told there. Try comparing the two versions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The order is the message<\/em>. In the parallel text in the book of Samuel, between the stories of the coronation of David, the fixing of Jerusalem as capital, and the story of the ascent of the Ark of God to Jerusalem, there are other stories, especially about David\u2019s wars with the Philistines (2 Sam 5). The Chronicler changes the order to more closely follow the kingship - Jerusalem - the Ark (which is the closest thing to the Temple) and thus signifies the order of importance.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. King of everyone<\/em>! This chapter, like its predecessors, communicates the message that David is the king of the entire nation - all the tribes and all the regions of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
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