 preparing of the ark is because even before that in verse 8 of chapter 14 when the philistines heard that david had been anointed king of israel all the philistines went up to search for david but david heard of it and went out against them and so what i'm trying to set there is a leader now in among the people of god before this time there was there was not good leadership so god has raised up this guy and by the way this leader was an interesting character because he is about 40 years old