David Attempts to Move the Ark

13 David consulted with all his officials, including the generals and captains of his army.^[a]

Josiah’s Religious Reforms

²⁹ Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king went up to the Temple of the Lord with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, along with the priests and the Levites—all the people from the greatest to the least. There the king read to them the entire Book of the Covenant that had been found in the Lord’s Temple.

²⁰ Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went to the Temple of the Lord.

²⁰ Here is a list of the men from Manasseh who defected to David as he was returning to Ziklag: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai. Each commanded 1,000 troops from the tribe of Manasseh.

Josiah’s Religious Reforms

23 Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

³² From the tribe of Issachar, there were 200 leaders of the tribe with their relatives. All these men understood the signs of the times and knew the best course for Israel to take.

¹⁴ These warriors from Gad were army commanders. The weakest among them could take on a hundred regular troops, and the strongest could take on a thousand!

Moving the Ark to Jerusalem

6 Then David again gathered all the elite troops in Israel, 30,000 in all.