Again, David gathered together all [the] chosen [men] of Israel, thirty thousand.
Ver. 1. Again, David gathered.] That is the second time 1Ch 13:1 ; 1Ch 13:5 after that their first consultation about the bringing of the ark to Jerusalem had been interrupted by the invasion of the Philistines. Reformation ever meeteth with opposition. David was no sooner settled in his kingdom, but he thinks of settling religion and God's sincere service: which popular men should esteem as silver, noblemen as gold, princes prize as pearls, as Aeneas Sylvius was wont to say of learning.