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1 Chronicles 13 📜 📕 ↷
David Fetches the Ark
1 AND David took counsel with the tribunes, and centurions, and all the commanders,📜💬📚
2 and he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you, & if the word which I speak proceed from our Lord God, let us send to the rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, & to the Priests, & Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, that they may be gathered together unto us,📜💬📚
3 and we may bring again unto us the Ark of our God: for we sought it not in the days of Saul.📜💬📚
4 And the whole multitude answered that it should be so done: for the word had pleased all the people.📜💬📚
5 David therefore assembled all Israel from Sihor of AEgypt, till thou enter into Emath, to bring the Ark of God from Cariathiarim.📜💬📚
6 And David went up, and every man of Israel to the hill of Cariathiarim which is in Juda, to fetch thence the Ark of our God sitting upon the Cherubim, where his name is invocated.📜💬📚
7 And they laid the Ark of God upon a new wain, out of the house of Abinadab. And Oza and his brother did drive the wain.📜💬📚
Uzzah Touches the Ark
8 Moreover David, & all Israel played before our Lord with all their might in songs, and on harps, and psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals, and trumpets.📜💬📚
9 And when they were come to the Floor of Chidon, Oza stretched forth his hand, to hold up the Ark: for the oxe being wanton had made it lean a little a-side.📜💬📚
10 Our Lord therefore was angry against Oza, & struck him, for that he had touched the Ark: and he died there before our Lord.📜💬📚
11 And David was strucken sad, because our Lord had divided Oza: and he called that place, the Division of Oza until this present day.📜💬📚
12 And he feared God at that time, saying: How may I bring in the Ark of God unto me?📜💬📚
13 And for this cause he brought it not unto himself, that is, into the city of David, but turned it away into the house of Obededom the Gethite.📜💬📚
14 Therefore the Ark of God remained in the house of Obededom three months: & our Lord blessed his house, and all things that he had📜💬📚
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