1 Chronicles 13

2 all the congregation. i.e., the assembly of the “captains and leaders,” as representing the nation; in accordance with whose decision David afterwards convened the people (vers. 4, 5).

5. Shihor of Egypt. Called elsewhere the “river of Egypt”; the modern Wady-el-Arish; the southern boundary of Palestine (see Josh. xiii. 3).

the entering of Hemath. Or, “the pass of Hamath,” the northern frontier of the land (Numb. xxxiv. 8).

6-14. David went up, etc. See 2 Sam. vi. 2-11.