xvi. 5 taken above be correct, these words also may be deleted as a

harmonising gloss, added by someone who wished to insist on Obed-edom as a _singer_, and hence gave him a place in the line of Jeduthun, one of the three great choral guilds.

³⁹and Zadok. the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,

=39.= _Zadok the priest_] As Zadok alone is here mentioned as “before the tabernacle,” the Chronicler perhaps implies that Abiathar (Ahimelech) the other high-priest was in charge of the Ark in Jerusalem. On Zadok and Abiathar, see xv. 11, note.

_the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon_] See prefatory note to chapter xiii.; and 2 Chronicles i. 3.

⁴⁰to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded unto Israel;

=40.= _the altar of burnt offering_] 2 Chronicles i. 5, 6.

_morning and evening_] Exodus xxix. 38, 39 (= Numbers xxviii. 3, 4).

⁴¹and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy _endureth_ for ever;

=41.= _Jeduthun_] Psalms xxxix., lxii., lxxvii. (titles). In vi. 33‒47, xv. 17, 19 the names of the leading singers are given as _Heman_, _Asaph_, and _Ethan_. Here and in xxv. 1 ff. however _Jeduthun_ seems to take the place of _Ethan_. Probably there was a variation in the tradition as to the third name, two families competing each for the honour of its own ancestor.

⁴²and with them Heman and Jeduthun _with_ trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and _with_ instruments for the songs of God: and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate. ⁴³And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

=42.= _and with them_, etc.] The words _with them_ are possibly repeated in error from verse 41. Render perhaps, =And Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals=. For _trumpets_ compare xv. 24 (note).

_sons of Jeduthun_] Perhaps a gloss connected with the statement in verse 38, where see note on _Obed-edom also the son of Jeduthun_.

_to be at the gate_] David’s organisation of the doorkeepers is given in xxvi. 1‒19.