Today, I am reading and commenting on  1 Chronicles 13-16.

I find it interesting that the Philistines attacked David after he brought the Ark of the Covenant as far as Obed-Edom’s house.  The passage suggests the me that David moving the Ark was what provoked the Philistines to attack.  And perhaps it was when he inquired of God about how he should respond to the Philistine aggression that led David to seek God’s guidance on how they should move the Ark.  I want to take a look at what David said to Abiathar and Zadok and the leaders of the Levitical families.  He seems at first to blame them for what happened when they first tried bringing the Ark to Jerusalem, “It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us.”  He seems to be suggesting that they should have known better and done it the right way.  But then he turns it around and takes responsibility for it going wrong by saying, “We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.”  That reads to me as David saying that even though the priests and Levites should have known better, it was his own responsibility to inquire of God about the proper way to move the Ark.  David pointed out to the Levites that they should have known the right thing to do, but he did not blame them any more than he blamed himself.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.