And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts.
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Gill's Exposition
And he dealt among all the people,.... Gave a dole unto them, divided among them:
even among the whole multitude of Israel: and if there were so many as at first, there were thirty thousand of them,…
Adam Clarke
He blessed the people in the name of the Lord - David acted here as priest, for it was the general prerogative of the priests to bless the people, but it appears, by both David and Solomon, that it…
We have here the second attempt to bring the ark home to the city of David; and this succeeded, though the former miscarried.
I. It should seem the blessing with which the house of Obed-edom was…
Cambridge Bible
burnt offerings and peace offerings The "burnt offerings" were dedicatory, the "peace offerings" eucharistic. The latter furnished the festival meal for the assembled people (Lev 7:15). Compare…
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