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We have -

I. A ROYAL RECTIFICATION. We have the useful fiction in England that "the king can do no wrong." It has been too often assumed by the potentates of the earth that they could not be mistaken, and need not return on their way. David was not so foolish and so faulty. He had the sense to see that he had erred in the way in which he had carried out a good desire, and he was prepared openly and honourably to retrace his steps. So he said to his courtiers, "No one ought to carry the ark of God," etc. (ver. 2), with obvious reference to the transaction recorded in ch. 13. And he "gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem," and "assembling the children of Aaron and the Levites" (ver. 4), he spoke plainly of the departure from the Law of which he and others had been guilty (vers. 12, 13). We certainly need not be ashamed "to come after the king "in the way of retractation. Where a monarch leads the way we may be content to follow. There is no more certain indication of foolish and fatal obstinacy than the refusal to admit an error. They who cling to their own mistakes and pertinaciously justify them are sure to come to some great grief in time. But they who have the humility and penetration to see that they are wrong, and also the courage to avow and correct it, are sure to find themselves on the upward road. They may take a wrong turn or two, but they move in the right direction, and, like David and the ark, will reach Jerusalem in time.

II. A GRACIOUS ADMONITION. (Vers. 11-13.) There may have been some doubt as to where the blame really lay, whether on the king or on the priests, or (as was probable enough) on both. David, while he did not exonerate himself, evidently felt that the priests and Levites were included in the condemnation: indeed, he addresses them and admonishes them as delinquents: "Because ye did it not at the first," etc. (ver. 13). His words and their attitude together may suggest to us that admonition should be graciously given and as graciously received. We should, on such occasions as this, speak as those

(1) who convey their message with reluctance and only on constraint;

(2) who desire to spare feeling as much as faithfulness will allow;

(3) who know that they have themselves reason to desire all possible elemency to be shown;

(4) who must not shun to declare the whole counsel of God. And on such occasions we should, when ourselves admonished, receive the admonition as those

(1) who are likely enough to have erred;

(2) who are prepared to be reproved by those who are in any position of authority;

(3) who are ready to correct our mistake at the earliest opportunity.

III. A PROMPT OBEDIENCE. (Vers. 14, 15.) There seems to have been no hesitancy. on the part of the priests and Levites; they appear to have applied themselves at once, with due zest, to the work which they had neglected before. They sanctified themselves for it (ver. 14), and then they executed it (ver. 15), doing all things "as Moses commanded, according to the word of the Lord." Like them, and like the prodigal of the parable (Luke 15.), who said, "I will arise," and he arose, we should feel and do, conclude and act, with no interval between of which the enemy can make use. When we have taken due time for understanding, and have seen the way we should take, then we should, like the men of whom we read here,

(1) at once make needful preparations for action, and,

(2) these made, carry our conclusions into effect. It is an evil spirit of uncertainty and delay which often makes penitence to be unavailing; it is prompt, unhesitating obedience to the Word of the Lord which takes us to the post of duty and then to the seat of honour and of joy. - C.

And David made him houses in the city Of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God.
I. PREPARATION FOR GOD'S WORK.

1. By personal sanctification.

2. By implicit obedience to God's command.

II. HEARTY CO-OPERATION IN GOD'S WORK.

1. Gained by consultation. Teachers' Meetings, Ministers' Conferences, National Councils of great help in effective work.

2. Displayed in united ranks.

3. Expressed by individual effort.

III. SUCCESS ACHIEVED IN GOD'S WORK.

(J. Wolfendale.)

I. THE CALL.

1. Personal.

2. Pressing.

3. Worthy.

II. THE RESPONSE.

1. Ready.

2. Universal.

3. Immediate.

III. THE DIRECTIONS TO CARRY IT OUT.

1. Clear.

2. Right.

3. Safe.

(J. Wolfendale.)

People
Aaron, Abiathar, Amasai, Amminadab, Asaiah, Asaph, Azaziah, Aziel, Bani, Ben, Benaiah, Berechiah, Chenaniah, David, Eliab, Eliel, Eliezer, Elipheleh, Elizaphan, Elkanah, Ethan, Gershom, Gershon, Heman, Jaaziel, Jehiah, Jehiel, Jehoshaphat, Jeiel, Joel, Joshaphat, Kohath, Kushaiah, Levites, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Merari, Merarites, Michal, Mikneiah, Nethaneel, Obededom, Saul, Shebaniah, Shemaiah, Shemiramoth, Unni, Uriel, Uzziel, Zadok, Zechariah
Places
Gezer, Jerusalem
Topics
Amminadab, Ammin'adab, Brethren, Brothers, Chief, Hundred, Leader, Relatives, Sons, Twelve, Uzziel, Uz'ziel
Outline
1. David having prepared a place for the ark,
15. the priests and Levites bring it from Obed-Edom
25. He performs the solemnity thereof with great joy
29. Michal despises him

Dictionary of Bible Themes
1 Chronicles 15:1-16

     7390   Levites

Library
April the Sixteenth Priests of the Lord
"None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites." --1 CHRONICLES xv. 1-3, 11-15. There are prepared people for prepared offices. The Lord will fit the man to the function, the anointed and consecrated priest for the consecrated and consecrating ministry. But now, in the larger purpose of the Lord, and in "the exceeding riches of His grace," everybody may be a priest of the Lord. "He hath made us to be priests and kings unto God." And He will prepare us to carry our ark, and to "minister in
John Henry Jowett—My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year

The King --Continued.
The years thus well begun are, in the historical books, characterized mainly by three events, namely, the bringing up of the ark to the newly won city of David, Nathan's prophecy of the perpetual dominion of his house, and his victories over the surrounding nations. These three hinges of the narrative are all abundantly illustrated in the psalms. As to the first, we have relics of the joyful ceremonial connected with it in two psalms, the fifteenth and twenty-fourth, which are singularly alike not
Alexander Maclaren—The Life of David

The Lord's Supper
And as they did eat, Jesus took bread,' &c. Mark 14: 22. Having spoken to the sacrament of baptism, I come now to the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is the most spiritual and sweetest ordinance that ever was instituted. Here we have to do more immediately with the person of Christ. In prayer, we draw nigh to God; in the sacrament, we become one with him. In prayer, we look up to Christ; in the sacrament, by faith, we touch him. In the word preached, we hear Christ's voice; in the
Thomas Watson—The Ten Commandments

Chronicles
The comparative indifference with which Chronicles is regarded in modern times by all but professional scholars seems to have been shared by the ancient Jewish church. Though written by the same hand as wrote Ezra-Nehemiah, and forming, together with these books, a continuous history of Judah, it is placed after them in the Hebrew Bible, of which it forms the concluding book; and this no doubt points to the fact that it attained canonical distinction later than they. Nor is this unnatural. The book
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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