1 Chronicles 13
World English Bible (WEB) • 14 verses
1David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
Related2 Chronicles 34:29-30 · 1 Chronicles 12:20 · 2 Chronicles 29:20 · 2 Kings 23:1 · 2 Samuel 6:1 · 1 Chronicles 12:32
2David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.
Related1 Samuel 31:1 · Numbers 4:4-20 · 2 Chronicles 31:4-21 · 1 Kings 12:7 · Philemon 1:8-9 · Proverbs 15:22
3Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”
Related1 Samuel 7:1-2 · 1 Samuel 23:2 · 1 Samuel 14:36 · 1 Samuel 14:18 · 1 Samuel 23:9-12 · 1 Samuel 22:15
4All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
Related1 Samuel 6:21-7:1 · 2 Samuel 6:1 · 1 Kings 8:65 · 1 Chronicles 15:3 · 1 Chronicles 13:6 · Joshua 13:3-6
6David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God the LORD’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
7They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
RelatedNumbers 4:15 · 1 Samuel 7:1-2 · 1 Chronicles 15:13 · 2 Samuel 6:3 · 1 Samuel 6:7 · 1 Chronicles 15:2
8David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
RelatedPsalms 150:3-5 · 2 Samuel 6:5-23 · 2 Kings 3:15 · 1 Chronicles 25:1-6 · 1 Chronicles 15:10-24 · 1 Chronicles 16:42
9When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
Related2 Samuel 6:6
10The LORD’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
Related1 Chronicles 15:15 · 1 Chronicles 15:13 · Numbers 4:15 · 1 Samuel 6:19 · 2 Chronicles 26:16-20 · Joshua 6:6
11David was displeased, because the LORD had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
12David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
RelatedPsalms 119:120 · 1 Samuel 6:20 · Numbers 17:12-13 · Job 25:5-6 · 1 Samuel 5:10-11 · 1 Kings 8:27
13So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
Related1 Chronicles 26:4 · 1 Chronicles 15:18 · 2 Samuel 6:10-11 · 1 Chronicles 26:8 · 2 Samuel 4:3 · 1 Chronicles 16:5
14God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.
Related1 Chronicles 26:4-5 · Proverbs 10:22 · Proverbs 3:9-10 · Genesis 30:27 · Malachi 3:10-11 · Genesis 39:5
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