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The Ark Travels on a New Cart
David gathers Israel to bring the ark from Baale of Judah. The celebration is intense, but the ark is transported on a cart rather than by the carrying arrangement prescribed in the Torah.
Numbers says the Kohathites received no carts because the holy things assigned to them were to be carried on their shoulders; 2 Samuel opens the ark journey with the ark on a new cart.
Luke’s hill-country journey, Elizabeth’s cry, John’s leaping, and the approximately three-month stay have led many interpreters to hear a deliberate ark echo from 2 Samuel 6. The cluster is meaningful but remains disputed because Luke never explicitly identifies Mary as the ark.
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