1 Chronicles 13:6

To Baalah , that is, to Kirjath-jearim (see Joshua 15:9-11 ; 1 Samuel 4:7 ; 2 Samuel 6:2 ; where the name is spelt with a final yod instead of he). A third name of this same place, Kirjath-baal , is found in Joshua 15:60 ; Joshua 18:14 . Probably the present ' Arms , a ruin ( i.q. Kirjath-arim, Ezra 2:25 ) on the brink of the valley of Sorek, may be the place. We read in Joshua 9:17-27 how the men of Kirjath-jearim had been made by Joshua "hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord." Hither to this Kirjath-jearim the ark had been conveyed from Bethshemesh ( 1 Samuel 7:1 , 1 Samuel 7:2 ), and here it "abode" long time, "for it was twenty years." Perhaps the word "abode" in this passage may be equivalent to abode unmoved ( 1 Samuel 14:1-52 .18, 19). For though the chronology from the death of Eli, through the remainder of Samuel's career and of Saul's, seems almost hopelessly uncertain, yet it would appear certain that the interval exceeded twenty years, to the time that David now takes in hand to bring home, as it were, the ark. The ark of God, the Lord . Though the Authorized Version of this passage is better and cleverer than that of the parallel ( 2 Samuel 6:2 ), yet it is left somewhat obscure. The comma should follow the name God. Jehovah sitting upon the cherubim then follows as a clause in apposition, while the last three words ( as the name is called , rather than whose name) state that clause to contain "the Name of the Lord" ( Deuteronomy 10:8 ; Deuteronomy 31:9 ; 1 Samuel 4:4 ; 1 Samuel 5:3 ; 1 Samuel 6:8 ). Bertheau, following Thenius, proposes to change the Hebrew שֵם into שָׁם . But there are abundant objections to this.