1 Chronicles 15:27 -

Several things in this verse indicate a somewhat uncertain and unsteady selection of particulars by the compiler from his original sources. The natural reading of the verse would seem to say that David and all those Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah, all wore the robe of byssus, while David had, in addition , the ephod of linen . Yet it is unlikely that all did wear the robe. Again, the Hebrew text exhibits no preposition before the singers , on the second occasion of the occurrence of the expression in this verse. Yet little sense can be found without a preposition. The robe was not distinctively a priest's garment ( 1 Samuel 18:4 ; 1 Samuel 24:5 , 1 Samuel 24:12 ; 2 Samuel 13:8 ; Job 1:20 ; Job 2:12 ), though priests did wear it. The robe of byssus is spoken of only here; 2 Chronicles 5:12 ; and Esther 8:15 . Byssus , however, is spoken of as material for other purposes in 1 Chronicles 4:21 ; 2 Chronicles 2:14 ; 2 Chronicles 3:14 ; Esther 1:6 ; Ezekiel 27:16 . The ephod , on the other hand, was no doubt distinctively a high priest's garment ( Exodus 28:4-12 ), though we read of Samuel wearing one ( 1 Samuel 2:18 , 1 Samuel 2:28 ), and of David doing the same, as on this occasion. The fine linen ( בּוץ ), in the first clause of this verse, is not the same with that ( בָּךְ ) in the last clause. The first clause of this verse (which makes the last clause somewhat redundant) bears some resemblance in letters to the fourteenth verse of 2 Chronicles 6:1-42 . first clause, which means, "and David danced with all his might," and the two clauses exactly answer to one another in position—another suggestion of an uncertain text here.