And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts
We have here the second attempt to bring the ark home to the city of David; and this succeeded, though the former miscarried. I. It should seem the blessing with which the house of Obed-edom was blessed for the ark's sake was a great inducement to David to bring it forward; for when that was told him (Sa2 6:12) he hastened to fetch it to him. For, 1.
Commenting on 2 Samuel 6:12-19
And he dealt among all the people,.... Gave a dole unto them, divided among them: even among the whole multitude of Israel: and if there were so many as at first, there were thirty thousand of them, Sa2 6:1; and perhaps more, since it follows: as well to the women as men; to both the one and the other; and the women, it is very...
he blessed the people--in the double character of prophet and king (see Kg1 8:55-56). [See on Ch1 16:2.]