the elders. Some codices, with Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "all the elders".
and. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Aramaean, and Septuagint, omit "and".
fathers. fathers' houses. families.
children. sons.
out of the city of David: i.e. up out of Zion (the former Jebus, 2 Samuel 5:6-9) to Moriah, where the Temple had been built (1 Chronicles 21:28; 1 Chronicles 22:1). Compare 2 Samuel 6. App-68