Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
These may be the "words of David" and his pious friends, who,
at Ephratah—or Beth-lehem (Genesis 48:7), where he once lived, may have heard of the ark, which he found for the first time
in the fields of the wood—or, Jair, or Kirjath-jearim ("City of woods") (I Samuel 7:1; II Samuel 6:3-4), whence it was brought to Zion.
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