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1 Chronicles 15:28 Explained in Context
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Verse 28. 28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
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Quick Meaning
Summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 15:25–15:29
Summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments. Read 1 Chronicles 15:28 within 15:25–15:29. The complete unit records: David, elders, and commanders bring the ark from Obed-edom with sacrifice, linen clothing, instruments, and public joy, while Michal watches and despises David.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The successful arrival closes the breach narrative but preserves a dissenting royal-house gaze at the edge of the celebration. In this exact position, the line beginning “Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with…” summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments.
Follow the Context
- David, elders, and commanders bring the ark from Obed-edom with sacrifice, linen clothing, instruments, and public joy, while Michal watches and despises David.
- The successful arrival closes the breach narrative but preserves a dissenting royal-house gaze at the edge of the celebration.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with…”
In plain language: Summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments.
The line beginning “Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with…” summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
The scene does not define Michal by a stereotype, authorize humiliating spouses, prove David's every action pure, or require performative worship.
What Remains True
Summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Worship requires ordered, truthful, skilled, and accountable service, while sacred office, beauty, or scale never determines a person's worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments, keep it inside 15:25–15:29, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 15:28 summarizes all Israel's ark procession through shouting and instruments. Use 15:25–15:29, paraphrase “Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 15:25–15:29 — The ark enters with joy while Michal despises DavidSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 15:28 remains within this thought-unit limit: Chronicles omits the later David-Michal confrontation and childlessness from 2 Samuel 6; her perspective and motives must not be invented from the single interior notice.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 15:25–15:29, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 15:25–15:29
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 15:25–15:29, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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