God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
Ver. 5. God is gone up with a shout] The ark is here called God, as also Psalms 132:5, and the face of God, Psalms 105:4; because from the ark, in the midst of the cherubims, God spake to his people, and they by looking towards it had a sure symbol of the divine presence. The bringing of it up with pomp and solemnity into Mount Sion was a type of Christ's wonderful ascension into heaven, triumphing over all his and our enemies, Col 2:15 Ephesians 4:8, and joyfully entertained by saints and angels in heaven. The Jews, ever apt to work themselves (as one saith of them) into the fool's paradise of a sublime dotage, understand this passage of the future reduction of the ark into the sanctuary, where it was once; and for the which they most earnestly pray still, as Buxtorf writeth (De Synag. Jud c. 13).
With the sound of a trumpet] Concrepantibus tubis; and in like sort he shall return, Act 1:11 1 Thessalonians 4:16 .