So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
Ver. 10. So David would not remove.] For he taketh it for granted that it was not God's will he should.
Into the house of Obededom the Gittite,] i.e., Born in Gathrimmon, a city of priests, Jos 21:24-25 and himself a Levite, a good man, and glad of such a guest as the ark, which he entertained cheerfully, and resolved to handle holily. Sancte magis quam scite, as he once said to the Vestalis Virgo.