Later text
So David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.
Intertextuality Pair
1 Chronicles 15:25-16 → 2 Samuel 6:12-19
Quotation
Earlier text
Now it was reported to King David, "The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing. When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD, while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram's horn. As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart. So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts. Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
Significance
These parallel accounts of the ark's successful entry into Jerusalem share the core narrative: sacrifices offered along the way, David dancing and celebrating, the ark placed in the tent, and David distributing food to all the people. The Chronicler massively expands the account by adding the Levitical musical arrangements (1 Chr 15:16-24), the detailed psalmic liturgy David appointed (1 Chr 16:8-36 — a composite of Psalms 105, 96, and 106), and the establishment of ongoing Levitical worship at the ark's tent. 2 Samuel 6:14 notes David wore a linen ephod (אֵפוֹד בָּד, ephod bad), a priestly garment, while the Chronicler adds that David also wore "a robe of fine linen" (מְעִיל בּוּץ, me'il buts). The Chronicler thus transforms Samuel's celebratory narrative into a foundational charter for Israel's worship institutions.
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- Reference Type
- Direct Quotation
- Connection Method(s)
- Redemptive-Historical Progression — Samuel's procession narrative is advanced into a worship charter: the Chronicler adds the Levitical musicians and the composite psalm of 1 Chr 16, transforming the celebration into the founding liturgy of the sanctuary — the movement of the history from ark-entry to instituted temple praise.