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David Fetches the Ark
2 Samuel 6:1–4 — David Fetches the Ark. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.
1David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.
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dā·wiḏ ’eṯ- ‘ō·wḏ way·yō·sep̄ bā·ḥūr bə·yiś·rā·’êl šə·lō·šîm ’ā·lep̄ kāl-
Literal — word-for-word from the original
And-he-added again — David — [obj] every-chosen-one in-Israel: thirty thousand.
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Instead of thirty thousand, the lxx have seventy chiliads, probably with an intentional exaggeration, because the number of men in Israel who were capable of bearing arms amounted to more than thirty thousand. The whole nation, through a very considerable body of representatives, was to take part in the removal of the ark.
The smallness of the number may be explained if we suppose it to refer only to the “captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader” mentioned in 1 Chronicles 13:1
The whole narrative indicates the progressive consolidation of David's power, and the settlement of his monarchy on strong foundations.
The manner of the ark’s transport was irregular; for the law strictly enjoined its being carried by the Levites by means of bearing-poles resting on their shoulders; and the copying of the Philistines’ cart, though a new one was made for the purpose, indicates the desuetude into which the decencies of worship had fallen in seventy years.Maclaren's exposition runs across 6:1-12, so this sentence anticipates v. 3; it is placed here because it names the governing fault of the whole procession at its outset.
2And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name—the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.
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way·yā·qām dā·wiḏ wə·ḵāl hā·‘ām ’ă·šer ’it·tōw way·yê·leḵ mib·ba·‘ă·lê yə·hū·ḏāh lə·ha·‘ă·lō·wṯ miš·šām ’êṯ ’ă·rō·wn hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm ’ă·šer- niq·rā šêm šêm Yah·weh ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ yō·šêḇ hak·kə·ru·ḇîm ‘ā·lāw
Literal — word-for-word from the original
And-he-arose — David — and-all the-people that [were] with-him, and-he-went from-Baale-of-Judah, to-bring-up from-there [obj] the-ark of-the-God, upon-which is-called a-Name — the-Name of-YHWH-of-Hosts, sitting [of] the-cherubim upon-it.
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Translate, which is called by the name, the name of Jehovah of hosts. The ark is thus described as being the visible symbol of God’s presence and of His covenant with His people.
“The Name” is first written absolutely, as at the end of Leviticus 24:16 , and then more fully defined as “the name of Jehovah of Hosts.”
thus whose belongs not to the ark, but to God ; for what follows is not the name of the ark, but of God.Poole is resolving a real ambiguity in the AV's “whose name”; K&D reach the same grammatical conclusion by a different route, while disagreeing with Poole about whether the Name was invoked at the ark.
Really it is a most interesting sign of the existence at this early date of a special reverence for the name "with four consonants" which we call "Jehovah."
3They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,
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Hebrew — tap a word ↓
way·yar·ki·ḇū ’eṯ- ’ă·rō·wn hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm ’el- ḥă·ḏā·šāh ‘ă·ḡā·lāh way·yiś·śā·’u·hū mib·bêṯ ’ă·ḇî·nā·ḏāḇ ’ă·šer bag·giḇ·‘āh wə·‘uz·zā wə·’aḥ·yōw bə·nê ’ă·ḇî·nā·ḏāḇ nō·hă·ḡîm ’eṯ- ḥă·ḏā·šāh hā·‘ă·ḡā·lāh
Literal — word-for-word from the original
And-they-made-ride [obj] the-ark of-the-God upon a-cart new, and-they-lifted-it from-the-house of-Abinadab which [was] on-the-hill; and-Uzzah and-Ahio, sons of-Abinadab, driving the-cart new.
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This was a hasty and inconsiderate procedure, in violation of an express statute (see on [263]Nu 4:15 and see Nu 7:9; 18:3).
“It is matter of astonishment to me,” says Delaney, “how David and all the priests and people could fall into so great an error, and deviate so strangely from the plain precepts of the law of God in this pointThe astonishment is Patrick Delaney's, quoted by Benson, not Benson's own sentence; Benson goes on to offer the mitigating history (Saul's slaughter of the priests, the long neglect of the ark) that follows in his note.
Philistines may carry the ark in a cart without suffering for it; but if Israelites do so, it is at their peril, because this was not what God appointed.
As Eleazar the son of Abinadab was old enough to be entrusted with the charge of the Ark when it was placed in his father’s house, we must clearly understand “sons” here in the wider sense of “descendants,” grandsons or great-grandsons.
4bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.
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way·yiś·śā·’u·hū ‘im ’ă·rō·wn hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm mib·bêṯ ’ă·ḇî·nā·ḏāḇ ’ă·šer bag·giḇ·‘āh wə·’aḥ·yōw hō·lêḵ lip̄·nê hā·’ā·rō·wn
Literal — word-for-word from the original
And-they-lifted-it from-the-house of-Abinadab which [was] on-the-hill, with the-ark of-the-God; and-Ahio walking before the-ark.
Where the English smooths the original
The text has undoubtedly suffered here through the repetition of a line by the scribes. The whole verse is omitted in the parallel passage in 1 Chronicles 13
are wanting in the Septuagint, and can only have been introduced through the error of a copyist, whose eye wandered back to the first עגלה in 2 Samuel 6:3 , so that he copied a whole line twice overK&D's sentence begins by naming the duplicated Hebrew words; the anchored excerpt starts at the claim itself, so the Hebrew of their citation is not reproduced here.
While Uzzah walked at the side, Ahio went before the oxen to guide and manage them, as the Basques may be seen at the present day doing in the south of France.
and Ahio went before the ark; guiding the oxen that drew it, and Uzzah might go behind, or on one side, to take care that the ark fell not out of it.Gill's last clause is inference, not text: Scripture nowhere says Uzzah walked behind to steady the ark, though 6:6 shows him near enough to reach it.
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The verse turns on one adverb. ע֥וֹד (ʻôwd, “again”) makes this a repeat performance, and the commentators divide over which performance it repeats. K&D say it “points back to 2 Samuel 5:1, 5:3, where all Israel is said to have assembled for the first time in Hebron to anoint David king,” conceding that those assemblies “w[ere] not convened directly by David himself” — the point being simply a second convening. Barnes and Cambridge both allow instead the muster for the Philistine war of 5:17-25, and Gill prefers that, since “they were the choice and young men that were gathered for war.” Ellicott adds a translator's correction: “The word ‘again’ should be transposed: ‘David gathered together again.’” On the number, K&D and Gill agree that the Hebrew's thirty thousand stands against the Septuagint's seventy; Cambridge supplies the most economical reading, that these are the “captains of thousands and hundreds and every leader” of 1 Chronicles 13:1 rather than a levy. Barnes reads the whole scene politically — “the progressive consolidation of David's power” — and Pulpit at length agrees, arguing that David needed a capital that was also a sanctuary. Benson will not let the politics stand alone: “he was sensible that purity and sincerity in the worship of God was the best, and, indeed, only sure stay of his own power.” ⚙ Both are true at once, and the chapter is about what happens when the statecraft is excellent and the rubric is not consulted.
The verse's centre is the stammer שֵׁ֗ם שֵׁ֣ם — “a Name, the Name of YHWH of Hosts.” Cambridge explains the structure: “‘The Name’ is first written absolutely, as at the end of Leviticus 24:16, and then more fully defined as ‘the name of Jehovah of Hosts.’” Pulpit hears in it a datable piece of piety — “a most interesting sign of the existence at this early date of a special reverence for the name ‘with four consonants.’” Ellicott's rendering is the plainest: “which is called by the name, the name of Jehovah of hosts. The ark is thus described as being the visible symbol of God's presence and of His covenant with His people.” Poole settles the grammar that the AV obscured: the relative “belongs not to the ark, but to God.” K&D press further, denying that the Nifal can mean the Name was invoked at the ark, “because no one was allowed to approach the ark for the purpose of invoking the name of the Lord there”; Benson and Poole, less worried, read exactly that devotional sense. The geography is contested too: Ellicott, Cambridge, Poole, Gill and K&D all wrestle with מִן, “from Baale,” where the narrative needs “to.” Maclaren finds the name itself eloquent: Baalah “indicates that it had been a Baal sanctuary. If so, the presence of the ark there was at once a symbol and an omen, showing Jehovah's conquest over the obscene and bloody gods of the land.” ⚙ The verse thus stacks every honour the language has — Name, Hosts, cherubim-throne — on a noun (ʼârôwn) that means, flatly, a box. That stacking is not decoration; it is the premise of the disaster in v. 7.
Here the vocabulary itself convicts. וַיַּרְכִּ֜בוּ is a Hiphil of râkab: Cambridge, “Lit. made the ark to ride.” נֹהֲגִ֖ים is nâhag, the verb for driving cattle. And וַיִּשָּׂאֻ֔הוּ is nâsâʼ — the very verb of lawful shoulder-carriage — spent on loading a wagon. JFB call the whole thing “a hasty and inconsiderate procedure, in violation of an express statute.” Ellicott concedes the good intention (“a mark of respect”) and still names the breach of Numbers 7:9. Gill is blunter: “it ought not to have been put upon a cart, old or new.” Benson preserves Delaney's astonishment “how David and all the priests and people could fall into so great an error,” and then offers the historical defence — the long irreligious reign, the massacre of the priests at Nob, years immersed in war. Pulpit builds that defence out at length: manuscripts were rare and costly, and “the exact way of bearing the ark was a matter that had long been dismissed from their memories.” Maclaren makes the same point as an indictment of the era, calling the copying of the Philistines' cart evidence of “the desuetude into which the decencies of worship had fallen in seventy years.” Henry gives the theological rule in a sentence: “Philistines may carry the ark in a cart without suffering for it; but if Israelites do so, it is at their peril, because this was not what God appointed.” Verse 4 then repeats itself, and the repetition is almost certainly a scribe's: Ellicott, K&D, Cambridge and Pulpit concur, and 1 Chronicles omits the verse entirely.
⚙ Read on its own terms, this unit is about a procession in which everything is right except the one thing commanded. The men are chosen (bâchar, tested and picked). The cart is new (châdâsh, undesecrated). The crowd is national, the king is devout, the object is named with the highest Name Israel knows. And the verbs are all wrong: the ark rides, the ark is driven, the ark is lifted — onto wheels. Numbers 7:9 had deliberately withheld wagons from the Kohathites so that the ark would always have to be borne on human shoulders, at human cost, at human pace. David restores the ark's honour and skips its instructions, and the narrator reports it without a word of comment, letting the vocabulary carry the charge.
⚙ What the passage seems to me to press on a reader is that sincerity is not a substitute for revelation, and newness is not a substitute for obedience. The Philistines had used a cart and gone unpunished (1 Samuel 6:7); Henry's distinction — that Israel knew better — is the right one, and it is uncomfortable, because it means that the more God has told you, the fewer innovations you are permitted. Yet I would not read this unit as a simple rebuke of joy. Maclaren is right that the crowd's gladness “does represent, though in crude form, the effect which the consciousness of God's presence should ever have.” The fault is not that they rejoiced; it is that no one asked how the thing they rejoiced over had said it wished to be carried. Verses 1-4 are, deliberately, all preparation and no arrival — the chapter will not let the procession reach Jerusalem on these wheels.
⚙ The pull-quote printed beside this unit is the tool's own sentence, offered to be tested. It is not a verse of Scripture and must not be cited as one.
The ark never asked for a cart; it asked for shoulders.
AI-generated connections. Each carries a verification badge with a recorded basis; contested links are flagged.
1 Chronicles 13:7 narrates this identical moment, and the Verifier's computed overlap is dense and clause-level: the ark (אָרוֹן), the new cart (חֲדָשָׁה), and the drovers' verb nâhag all recur together. K&D note one real difference of construction — “nâhag, to drive (a carriage), is construed here with an accusative, in 1 Chronicles 13:7 with bᵉ.” Cambridge and K&D both judge that the Chronicler is not expanding Samuel but that both writers condense a fuller common source; Cambridge adds that the Chronicler's interest in religious organization explains his extra detail, “where the writer of Samuel is content to condense his account into a single sentence.” Chronicles also omits 2 Samuel 6:4 altogether, which is why that verse's duplicated half is widely judged a scribal slip.
1 Chronicles 13:7
basis: Verifier: shared Hebrew lexemes H727 ʼârôwn (in 174 vv), H5090 nâhag (in 31 vv), H2319 châdâsh (in 48 vv), co-occurring in a single clause; nâhag is the comparatively rare item and is decisive. This is a synoptic parallel of the same event, not a quotation of one book by the other.
The ark's departure in this unit is the exact mirror of its arrival: 1 Samuel 7:1 put it in the house of Abinadab on the hill, and 2 Samuel 6:3-4 takes it out of the house of Abinadab on the hill. The Verifier confirms all three anchors shared. K&D compute the interval: “about seventy years (viz., twenty years to the victory at Ebenezer … forty years under Samuel and Saul, and about ten years under David).” Cambridge says “seventy or eighty.” The same passage also settles the topography: בַּגִּבְעָה is “on the hill,” not “in Gibeah,” as Ellicott, Barnes, Benson, Poole, Cambridge and Pulpit all insist by appeal to 1 Samuel 7:1 — and it is why Cambridge and Barnes read “sons of Abinadab” as descendants.
1 Samuel 7:1
basis: Verifier: shared Hebrew lexemes H41 ʼĂbîynâdâb (in 11 vv — rare), H1389 gibʻâh (in 71 vv), H727 ʼârôwn (in 174 vv). The rarity of H41 plus the identical house-on-the-hill formula makes the verbal link secure; the two passages are the opening and closing brackets of one custody.
This unit is the loaded first half of a sentence whose verb falls in 6:6-7: the oxen stumble, Uzzah puts out his hand to the ark, and God strikes him. The Verifier links our verses to 2 Samuel 6:6, 6:7 and to 1 Chronicles 13:9-10 by the shared rare name ʻUzzâʼ together with ʼârôwn. Maclaren, reading the whole span, says the solemn designation of the ark in v. 2 “by emphasising its awful sanctity, prepares for the incidents which are to follow,” and that had there “been more trembling in it, it would not have passed so soon into wild terror.” Pulpit distributes the blame widely: “all the guilty were punished … And David also was in fault; for he ought to have commanded the priests to make diligent search.” ⚙ The lexical point stands on its own: the man who touches the ark is named in v. 3, in the same breath as the cart.
2 Samuel 6:6 · 2 Samuel 6:7 · 1 Chronicles 13:9 · 1 Chronicles 13:10
basis: Verifier: shared Hebrew lexemes H5798 ʻUzzâʼ (in 14 vv — rare) and H727 ʼârôwn (in 174 vv) across all four verses. Same narrative, same named actor; the link is continuity of story, not citation.
Every commentator in the brief names the same statute. Ellicott: the new cart “was a violation of the law (Numbers 7:9), requiring that the ark should be borne by the Levites.” JFB: “in violation of an express statute (see on Numbers 4:15 and see Numbers 7:9; 18:3).” Cambridge cites Numbers 3:29-31 and 7:9; Gill notes that the Kohathites, alone among the Levites, were given no wagons “for the above reason”; Benson recalls that the law “expressly prohibited any but the priest to touch the ark, upon pain of death, Numbers 4:5; 4:15.” ⚙ The force of Numbers 7:9 is that the absence of a cart was itself legislation: what other clans were given, this clan was denied, so that the ark would always travel on shoulders.
Numbers 7:9 · Numbers 4:15
basis: No Verifier-computed lexeme basis is available for this pair (it is not among the computed thread candidates), so no verbal claim is made. The link is a legal-thematic one, recorded independently by Ellicott, JFB, Cambridge, Gill, Benson, Poole, Pulpit and Maclaren, who all name Numbers 7:9 / 4:15 as the statute this verse breaches.
2 Samuel 6:2 describes YHWH as “sitting [of] the cherubim” above the ark; Hebrews 9:5 describes “the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat,” and treats the whole apparatus as a shadow of a greater sanctuary. Cambridge connects our clause to Deuteronomy 28:10 and 1 Kings 8:43, where the Name called over a people or a house marks ownership. ⚙ The New Testament writer is working from the Greek of the Pentateuch, not from Samuel, so there is no verbal link to claim here at all: this is a shared cultic structure — throne-guardians, a covered chest, a Name that owns it — read forward.
Hebrews 9:5 · Deuteronomy 28:10 · 1 Kings 8:43
basis: Cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew): shared Strong's numbers are impossible across the testaments, so no verbal tier is available or claimed. The basis is the shared cultic structure of cherubim-throne, ark and the Name called over it, with Deuteronomy 28:10 and 1 Kings 8:43 cited for the Name-formula by Barnes and Cambridge.
The Verifier reports 1 Chronicles 8:14, 8:31 and 9:37 as candidates, on the strength of the rare name אַחְיוֹ (ʼAchyôw, in only 6 verses). ⚙ We flag rather than assert: those men are Benjaminite genealogical figures with no connection to the ark or to Abinadab's house, so name-identity here is homonymy, not a link. Worse for the pairing, Cambridge doubts the word is a name at all in our verse: “The same consonants with different vowels would mean his brethren, as the Sept. renders the word here, or his brother, as the Vulg. renders it in 1 Chronicles 13:7.” The lexeme overlap is real and machine-verified; the inference from it is not safe.
1 Chronicles 8:14 · 1 Chronicles 8:31 · 1 Chronicles 9:37
basis: Verifier: shared Hebrew lexeme H283 ʼAchyôw (in 6 vv — rare), which would normally support a verbal tier. Flagged instead because the shared item is a personal name borne by unrelated persons, and because Cambridge reports that in 2 Samuel 6:4 the consonants may not be a name at all (LXX 'his brethren', Vulgate at 1 Chronicles 13:7 'his brother').
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Matthew Henry states the reading the church has long made of this chapter: “Christ is our Ark; in and by him God manifests his favour, and accepts our prayers and praises. The ark especially typified Christ and his mediation, in which the name of Jehovah and all his glories are displayed.” The lexical footing is in v. 2: the ark is not holy as furniture but because a Name has been called out over it — נִקְרָא … עָלָיו, the idiom of possession that Barnes traces through Deuteronomy 28:10, 1 Kings 8:43 and Isaiah 4:1. Ellicott: the ark is “the visible symbol of God's presence and of His covenant with His people.” Hebrews takes the same furniture — ark, cherubim, mercy seat — as the shadow whose substance is Christ's own priesthood and blood, and John's prologue says the glory that had dwelt over the cherubim tabernacled in flesh.
Hebrews 9:4-5 · Romans 3:25 · John 1:14 · Colossians 2:9
⚙ The single theological nerve of this unit is that God specified how He would be approached, and that a better-looking method was fatal. Henry's sentence is the hinge: “this was not what God appointed.” Numbers 7:9 gave no wagons to the Kohathites precisely so the ark would travel on shoulders. ⚙ Read forward, the pattern presses toward a claim the New Testament makes explicitly: there is an appointed way of coming to God and no substitute, however new and however sincere, is permitted — “I am the way,” and the access is “by a new and living way which He opened for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh.” The contrast is exact: Uzzah dies for touching what he was not appointed to touch; Hebrews invites the worshipper to enter the holy place with boldness, because someone appointed has borne it.
John 14:6 · Hebrews 10:19-20 · Numbers 7:9
Maclaren draws a figural reading out of the place-name itself: Baale/Baalah “indicates that it had been a Baal sanctuary. If so, the presence of the ark there was at once a symbol and an omen, showing Jehovah's conquest over the obscene and bloody gods of the land, and forecasting His triumph over all the gods of the nations. Every Baale shall one day be a resting-place of the ark of God.” ⚙ The unit's stated purpose is an ascent — לְהַעֲלוֹת, Hifil of ʻâlâh — of the Name out of a town named for a rival god toward the city where it will be enthroned; the Psalms that celebrate the ark's final ascent are read by the apostolic writers of Christ's own ascent and of gifts given to men. The typology is real but the accent here is Maclaren's, and the reader should note that 2 Samuel 6:1-4 records only the setting-out: on these wheels the ascent does not arrive.
Psalm 24:7-10 · Psalm 68:18 · Ephesians 4:8
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Text. Two verses in this unit are textually disturbed, and the brief's own sources say so in chorus. (1) 6:2, “from Baale of Judah.” The Hebrew has מִן where the narrative needs “to.” Ellicott posits “either a textual error here … or else the historian … omits the mention of the journey to Baale”; Cambridge reports that “most commentators emend the text in accordance with 1 Chronicles 13:6, and read to,” and further that the ancient versions took baʻălê as a common noun, “of the rulers” or “of the men, of Judah,” which would mean a place-name has dropped out. Poole and Gill defend the received text (they went thither in order to return thence); K&D call the versions' appellative reading “decidedly incorrect,” since “thence” in the next clause presupposes a place. Pulpit's explanation is that “the narrator wrote according to the sense, and not according to the grammar.” We have translated the Hebrew as it stands and flagged the difficulty rather than choosing.
(2) 6:4, the duplicated half-verse. Ellicott: “The text has undoubtedly suffered here through the repetition of a line by the scribes.” K&D: the words are “wanting in the Septuagint, and can only have been introduced through the error of a copyist, whose eye wandered back.” Cambridge proposes the corrected reading: “Now Uzzah and Ahio the sons of Abinadab were driving the cart with the Ark of God, and Ahio was going before the Ark.” 1 Chronicles omits 2 Samuel 6:4 entirely. Our literal rendering follows the Masoretic text as printed in the interlinear, duplication and all, because that is what the sourced data contains; the reader should know that the sentence may never have been written that way.
(3) Numbers. MT has thirty thousand; the Septuagint seventy. Gill notes the Targum, Syriac and Arabic support the Hebrew; K&D call the Greek figure an intentional exaggeration. Cambridge's suggestion that thirty thousand counts only officers is an explanation, not a variant.
(4) “Ahio.” Possibly not a name: Cambridge cites LXX “his brethren” and Vulgate (at 1 Chronicles 13:7) “his brother.” Our notes retain the name because the interlinear parses it as a proper noun (H283).
Sources and their limits. The interlinear word-order printed in the brief follows the BSB's English sequence, not the Hebrew: in 6:1, for example, כָּל־ is printed last though it stands before בָּחוּר in the Hebrew clause. Our “literal” lines are rebuilt from the Hebrew order and will therefore not match the index numbers in sequence. The gloss supplied for 6:2 word 7 (מִֽבַּעֲלֵ֖י) is defective in our source (“vvv”); we have taken it with word 8 as the compound place-name, which is what every commentator in the brief does.
What is uncertain. The morphology of וַיֹּ֨סֶף in 6:1 (Strong's assigns H622 ʼâçaph; the written form is that of yâsaph, and K&D must argue for a defective spelling). Whether the Nifal “is called upon it” in 6:2 ever bore the sense “is invoked at it” — K&D say never, Poole and Benson say here. Whether Abinadab was alive (Barnes and Poole doubt it) and whether “sons” means sons (Cambridge, Barnes and K&D prefer descendants). What is machine synthesis. Everything marked ⚙, including the sola-reading, its pull-quote, and the forward reading in the second Christ entry, is this tool's own fallible work and carries no authority; it is offered to be tested against the text. The Benson excerpt at 6:3 quotes Patrick Delaney, not Benson's own voice; the note there records it.
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