## Rashi on II Samuel Chapter 6

###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:1:1
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**וַיֹּסֶף עוֹד דָּוִד.** לֶאֱסֹף:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Dovid again gathered.** To gather.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:1:2
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:1:2)

**אֶת כָּל בָּחוּר בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל שְׁלֹשִׁים אָלֶף.** לְפִי שֶׁנֶּאֶסְפוּ עָלָיו כְּשֶׁהִמְלִיכוּהוּ בְּחֶבְרוֹן, וְזוֹ הָיְתָה אֲסִיפָה שְׁנִיָּה, לְכָךְ נֶאֱמַר וַיֹּסֶף עוֹד:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**All the chosen men of Yisroel, thirty thousand.** Because they gathered for him when they crowned him in Chevron and [therefore] this was a second gathering [for Dovid] [Scripture] herefore says, "[Dovid] again gathered."


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:2:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:2:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:2:1)

**מִבַּעֲלֵי יְהוּדָה.** הִיא קִרְיַת יְעָרִים, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר בִּיהוֹשֻׁעַ (יהושע טו:ט): ״וְתָאַר הַגְּבוּל וְעָלָה בַּעֲלָה הִיא קִרְיַת יְעָרִים״, וְכֵן בְּדִבְרֵי הַיָּמִים (דברי הימים א יג:ו): ״וַיַּעַל דָּוִד וְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּעֲלָתָה הִיא קִרְיַת יְעָרִים״. וּ׳בַעַל׳ לְשׁוֹן ׳מִישׁוֹר׳:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**From Baalei Yehuda.** This is [the city of] Kiryas Yearim as it is said in Yehoshua, "and the boundary circled" and went up "to Baaloh, which is Kiryas Yearim" (Yehoshua 15:9). This also [can be found] in Divrei Hayomim, "Dovid and all Yisroel went up to Baaloh, which is Kiryas Yearim" (Divrei Hayomim I, 13:6). [The word] Baal means a plain.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:2:2
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**וַיָּקָם וַיֵּלֶךְ דָּוִד וְגוֹ׳ מִבַּעֲלֵי יְהוּדָה.** שֶׁנֶּאֶסְפוּ שָׁם **לְהַעֲלוֹת מִשָּׁם אֶת הָאָרוֹן וְגוֹ׳**:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Dovid arose and went from Baalei Yehuda.** That gathered there to bring up the Ark from there…


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:2:3
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:2:3)

**אֲשֶׁר נִקְרָא שֵׁם שֵׁם.** אֲשֶׁר נִקְרָא לוֹ לָאָרוֹן שֵׁם, וּמַהוּ הַשֵּׁם, שֶׁהָיָה שֵׁם ה׳ צְבָאוֹת עָלָיו:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Whose name is called, the name.** The Ark is called a name, and what is the name? The name of Adonoy of Hosts was upon it.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:3:1
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**אֶל עֲגָלָה חֲדָשָׁה.** טָעָה בְּדָבָר שֶׁאֲפִילוּ תִינוֹקוֹת שֶׁל בֵּית רַבָּן יוֹדְעִין אוֹתוֹ, ״כִּי עֲבֹדַת הַקֹּדֶשׁ עֲלֵיהֶם בַּכָּתֵף יִשָּׂאוּ״ (במדבר ז:ט), וּלְפִי שֶׁאָמַר (תהלים קיט:נד): ״זְמִירוֹת הָיוּ לִי חֻקֶּיךָ בְּבֵית מְגוּרָי״, נֶעֱנַשׁ לָבֹא לִידֵי כָּךְ, וּמֵת עֻזָּא עַל יָדוֹ, לְפִיכָךְ כְּשֶׁהֱבִיאוּ מִבֵּית עוֹבֵד, הֱבִיאוּ בַּכָּתֵף, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברי הימים א טו:יב-יג): ״וַיֹּאמֶר לָהֶם אַתֶּם רָאשֵׁי הָאָבוֹת לַלְוִיִּם הִתְקַדְּשׁוּ אַתֶּם וַאֲחֵיכֶם וְהַעֲלִיתֶם אֶת אֲרוֹן וְגוֹ׳. כִּי לְמִבָּרִאשׁוֹנָה לֹא אַתֶּם פָּרַץ ה׳ אֱלֹהֵינוּ בָּנוּ כִּי לֹא דְרַשְׁנוּהוּ כַּמִּשְׁפָּט״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**On a new wagon.** [Dovid] made a mistake about something that even children at their Rebbe's school know "Because the sacred work was [incumbent] upon them, which they had to carry on their shoulders" (Bamidbar 7:9). And because [Dovid] said, "Your statutes were songs for me in the house of my dwelling,"¹ (Tehilim 119:54) he was punished to come to this,² and [to have] Uzoh die through his hand. Therefore³ when they brought [the Ark] from the house of Oveid they brought it by shoulder as it says (Divrei Hayomim I, 15:12), "And he said to them, 'You, the heads of households for the Levites, you and your brothers sanctify yourselves and bring up the Ark… because, the first time you did it not.⁴ Hashem, Elokeinu made a breach upon us because we did not consult with Him as was proper'."⁵

footnotes:
¹ Hashem said to Dovid, “The words of the Torah upon which it is written, ‘Blink your eyes [and be distracted] from it and it is gone’ (Mishlei 23:5), you are calling songs?” (Sotah 35a). A song is of only temporary interest and then forgotten (Maharsho, ibid).
² Making the mistake of transporting the Ark by wagon.
³ After learning from this mistake.
⁴ Transporting the Ark on your shoulders.
⁵ Consequently leading to our tragic mistake.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:4:1
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**עִם אֲרוֹן הָאֱלֹהִים.** הֲרֵי זֶה מִקְרָא קָצָר, וְהֵם בָּאִים עִם אֲרוֹן הָאֱלֹהִים:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With the Ark of Elokim.** This is a shortened verse, [it means to say] and they were coming with the Ark of Elokim.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:5:1
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**בְּכָל עֲצֵי בְרוֹשִׁים.** שֶׁמְּתַקְּנִים מֵהֶם כְּלֵי זֶמֶר:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**With all [instruments made of] cypress wood.** Musical instruments manufactured from [cypress wood].


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:6:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:6:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:6:1)

**כִּי שָׁמְטוּ הַבָּקָר.** כִּי שְׁמָטוּהוּ הַבָּקָר וְנִעְנְעוּהוּ, וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן: ״אֲרֵי מְרָגוּהִי תּוֹרַיָּא״, כְּמוֹ שֶׁמְּתַרְגֵּם (דברים יט:ה): ״וְנִדְּחָה יָדוֹ בַגַּרְזֶן״, ״וְתִתְמְרִיג יְדֵיהּ בְּפַרְזְלָא״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Because the ox had [made] it slip.** Because the ox had [made] it slip and had shaken it And so to is Yonasan's translation, "because the ox had [made] it slip," like [Onkelus] translates [the verse], "and his hand slips on the axe" [as follows:] and his hand slips on the axe.⁶

footnotes:
⁶ Substituting the hebrew word וְנִדְּחָה with the Amaraic translation, וְתִתְמְרִיג denoting slipping just like he uses the same Amaraic word in our verse, i.e., מְרָגוּהִי.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:7:1
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**עַל הַשַּׁל.** עַל הַשְּׁגָגָה, שֶׁהָיָה לוֹ לִדְרֹשׁ קַל וָחֹמֶר, נוֹשְׂאָיו נָשָׂא בַּיַּרְדֵּן, הוּא עַצְמוֹ לֹא כָּל שֶׁכֵּן:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Because of his mistake.** Because of his mistake, he should have expounded a fortiori [as follows:] the Ark carried its own porters in the Yardein,⁷ isn't it all the more so [that it is able to carry] itself.

footnotes:
⁷ When Bnei Yisroel crossed the Yardein into the land of Yisroel as stated in Yehoshua 4:11 and explained in Sotah, ibid.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:10:1
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**עוֹבֵד אֱדוֹם.** לֵוִי הָיָה, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב בְּדִבְרֵי הַיָּמִים (דברי הימים א טו:יח), ״וּמִן הַשּׁוֹעֲרִים הָיָה״ (שם):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Oveid Edom.** He was a Levite as it is wriiten in Divrei Hayomim (I, 15:24) and he was one of the gatekeepers.⁸

footnotes:
⁸ Of the Bais HaMikdosh.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:11:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:11:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:11:1)

**וַיְבָרֶךְ ה׳ וְגוֹ׳.** אִשְׁתּוֹ וּשְׁמוֹנֶה כַּלּוֹתֶיהָ יָלְדוּ שִׁשָּׁה בָּנִים בְּכֶרֶס אֶחָד, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (דברי הימים א כו:ה): ״פְעֻלְתַּי הַשְּׁמִינִי״, ״שִׁשִּׁים וּשְׁנַיִם לְעֹבֵד אֱדוֹם״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**And Hashem blessed.** His wife and her eight daughters-in-law each gave birth to six children in one stomach⁹ as it is said, (Divrei Hayomim I, 26:5–8) "Poualti, the eigth¹⁰… sixty-two [belonging] to Oveid Edom.¹¹

footnotes:
⁹ Pregnancy.
¹⁰ Child of Oveid Edom.
¹¹ See Berachos 63b.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:14:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:14:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:14:1)

**מְכַרְכֵּר.** מְרַקֵּד:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Danced.** Danced.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:14:2
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:14:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:14:2)

**אֵפוֹד בָּד.** מְעִיל בּוּץ, פורציינ״ט בלע״ז, וְיוֹנָתָן תִּרְגֵּם: ״כַּרְדּוֹט״, וְכֵן תִּרְגֵּם יוֹנָתָן ׳מְעִילִים׳ דְּתָמָר אֲחוֹת אַבְשָׁלוֹם (שמואל ב יג:יח), ״כַּרְדּוֹטִין״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Linen robe.** A linen robe, *Foursaint* in O.F. Yonasan translated, robe as Yonasan also translated "the robes of Tomor, the sister of Avsholom," robes (Further, 13:18)


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:19:1
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**וְאֶשְׁפָּר.** אֶחָד מִשִּׁשָּׁה בְּפַר (פסחים לו ב):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**A portion of meat.** One sixth of a cow.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:19:2
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:19:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:19:2)

**אֲשִׁישָׁה אַחַת.** גַּרְבָּא דְּחַמְרָא (שם):

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**A jug [of wine].** A jug of wine.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:20:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:20:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:20:1)

**אַחַד הָרֵקִים.** (תרגום:) ״חַד מִן סְרִיקַיָּא״:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**One of the riff-raff.** [Targum Yonasan translates:] One of the riff-raff.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:22:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:22:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:22:1)

**וּנְקַלֹּתִי עוֹד.** לְפָנָיו, יוֹתֵר מִזֹּאת שֶׁהֲקִלּוֹתִי בְּעַצְמִי עַתָּה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**[Had] I made light even more.** Before Him [even] more then this [that] I made light of myself now.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:22:2
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:22:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:22:2)

**עִמָּם אֶכָּבֵדָה.** אֵינָם מְבַזִּין אוֹתִי, אֶלָּא חָשׁוּב אֲנִי בְּעֵינֵיהֶם עַל זֹאת:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**I would be more honoured among them.** They do not ridicule me but I am important in their eyes becasue of this.


###### Rashi on II Samuel 6:23:1
[Rashi on II Samuel 6:23:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Rashi%20on%20II%20Samuel/r/6:23:1)

**לֹא הָיָה לָהּ יָלֶד.** מֵאוֹתוֹ הַיּוֹם וָהָלְאָה:

**The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J:**
**Had no child** From that day on.¹²

footnotes:
¹² Prior to that day, she did have a child, Yisroam mentioned earlier (Shmuel II, 3:5), see Rashi there.