2 Samuel 15:25

25 The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:

2 Samuel 15:25 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 15:25

And the king said unto Zadok, carry back the ark of God into
the city
The reason of which is not easy to account for, since being carried back it would fall into the hands of the conspirators; and now the priests were with it to take care of it, and there might be occasion to inquire at it before the Lord; but David thought it being a sacred thing would not be violated by Absalom and his men, and that it would be safest in its own habitation or tabernacle, which David had built for it; for, that the reason of it should be, what Procopius Gazaeus suggests, cannot be given into, that he could not bear to carry about him the law, which accused of adulteries and murders:

if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord:
if he will appear for me, be on my side, and deliver me from those who have risen up against me:

he will bring me again:
to Jerusalem, and to his palace there:

and show me [both] it and his habitation;
the ark, and the tabernacle he had erected for it, ( 2 Samuel 6:17 ) .

2 Samuel 15:25 In-Context

23 All the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.

24 Behold, Zadok also [came], and all the Levites with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God; and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.

25 The king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:

26 but if he say thus, I have no delight in you; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seems good to him.

27 The king said also to Zadok the priest, "Aren't you a seer? Return into the city in peace, and your two sons with you, Ahimaaz your son, and Jonathan the son of Abiathar.