Illustration: David's joy in returning the Ark to Jerusalem.
As we look at this account – I will be pointing out how we can see some shadows and types of Jesus and the Gospel in the passage. Jesus said we should see Him. John 5:39
David and the Ark. 2 Samuel 6 / 1 Chronicles 15
David has been established as King of Israel in Jerusalem (now called the City of David). The Ark was located in Baalah Judah / Kiriath-Jearim. (A city on the northern border of Judah and southern Benjamin near the western edge of the mountains of Judah, 9 to 10 miles from Jerusalem)
Philistines captured and then returned Ark – 1 Sam 6:21 and remained there for 20 years 1 Sam 7:1-2/ 1 Chron 13:5-6
God had laid it upon David's heart to bring the Ark to Jerusalem.
The Ark of God – whose name is called by "The name, the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim." The Ark represented the very presence of God. (2 Samuel 6:2; 1 Chronicles 13:6)
Like Jesus was the very presence of God. Oh how the Lord Jesus was zealous for Father and the temple (the location of the Ark)
“When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers' money and overturned the tables. (16) And He said to those who sold doves, "Take these things away! Do not make My Father's house a house of merchandise!" (17) Then His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up." (John 2:15-17 NKJV)
David builds a tent – tabernacle in Jerusalem and retrieves the Ark – with 30,000 men, with much joy and celebration:
two sons of Abinadab, a Levite, Uzzah, and Ahio, accompanied the Ark on a cart. I get the picture of Ahio on the front and Uzzah on the back. The Ark is in between two men - Oops: the wrong way to do this - Uzzah touches the Ark and dies. (2 Samuel 6: 1-11; 1 Chronicles 13:5-8)
Like the Ark (Jesus on the Cross - the presence of the Lord) – between two men – one dies the other lives.
David is now fearful of God and the Ark, and it stayed with Obed-Edom inside his house for three months. Not sure how far away this was from Jerusalem.
The Ark, after three months, comes out and returns to its rightful place in the tabernacle. A picture of the resurrection and Jesus returning to heaven.
David follows God's way – Levites carry the Ark on poles (2 Sam 6:12-16; 1 Chron 15:1-29). These poles were made of acacia wood overlaid with gold. (Exodus 25:13-15)As the wooden poles lifted up the Ark, so Jesus was also lifted up on a wooden Cross – not covered with gold – but something more precious – covered in His blood.
David is leaping and dancing with joy before the Lord. Every six paces sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep (2 Samuel 6:13) (that was a bloody trail). So was the trail of blood of Jesus' carrying His Cross from Jerusalem to outside the city – bleeding a trail of blood to Calvary. –
6. How do you respond to seeing these shadows and types of Jesus and the Gospel?
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