And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
David consulted the captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader, the military captains and civil leaders of different ranks, before proposing to bring the ark from Kirjath-jearim. The consultation embraced leaders of every grade, from captains over thousands and hundreds down to every leader. It belongs to the history of the ark's return to Israel's public worship and its place in David's city, as David brought it from the house of Obed-edom toward Jerusalem after it had been kept there for three months.
The consultation illustrates organized leadership and shared counsel among leaders as a principle of leadership and coordinated service. Such counsel among captains and every leader secured harmonious action so that each person's work counted and contributed to the whole. Though the purpose was likely right and the leaders and congregation approved with celebration in music and worship, the plan was a serious mistake. The ark was placed on a cart after the Philistines' way instead of being carried on the shoulders of the Kohathites as God had ordained through Moses.
When Uzzah touched the ark he died under divine judgment, and David in distress stopped the move to Jerusalem. United agreement, good motives and intentions, and public religious enthusiasm did not make the course right. David later recognized the breach came because they had not sought God according to the prescribed due order. Human reason is unsafe when it sets aside prophetic instruction, and a prophet's death does not lessen the force of the testimony already given.
David consulted the captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader, the military captains and civil leaders of different ranks, before proposing to bring the ark from Kirjath-jearim. The consultation embraced leaders of every grade, from captains over thousands and hundreds down to every leader. It belongs to the history of the ark's return to Israel's public worship and its place in David's city, as David brought it from the house of Obed-edom toward Jerusalem after it had been kept there for three months.
The consultation illustrates organized leadership and shared counsel among leaders as a principle of leadership and coordinated service. Such counsel among captains and every leader secured harmonious action so that each person's work counted and contributed to the whole. Though the purpose was likely right and the leaders and congregation approved with celebration in music and worship, the plan was a serious mistake. The ark was placed on a cart after the Philistines' way instead of being carried on the shoulders of the Kohathites as God had ordained through Moses.
When Uzzah touched the ark he died under divine judgment, and David in distress stopped the move to Jerusalem. United agreement, good motives and intentions, and public religious enthusiasm did not make the course right. David later recognized the breach came because they had not sought God according to the prescribed due order. Human reason is unsafe when it sets aside prophetic instruction, and a prophet's death does not lessen the force of the testimony already given.