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2 Samuel 6 📜 📕 ↷
David Fetches the Ark
1 And David again gathered all the chosen of Israel, thirty thousand,📜💬📚
2 And David arose, and went, and all the people that was with him of the men of Juda, to bring the ark of God, upon which was invocated the name of the Lord of hosts, which sitteth in the Cherubins upon it.📜💬📚
3 And they laid the ark of God upon a new wain: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa: and Oza and Ahio the sons of Abinadab, did drive the new wain.📜💬📚
4 And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, Ahio keeping the ark of God went before the ark.📜💬📚
Uzzah Touches the Ark
5 But David, and all Israel played before our Lord in all wrought wood, both on harps and lutes and timbrels & citterns and cymbals.📜💬📚
6 And after they came to the Floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and held it: because the oxen spurned, and made it lean aside.📜💬📚
7 And our Lord was wrath with indignation against Oza, and struck him for the rashness: who died there before the ark of God.📜💬📚
8 And David was strucken sad, for that our Lord had strucken Oza, & the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza until this day.📜💬📚
9 And David feared our Lord in that day, saying: How shall the ark of our Lord come unto me?📜💬📚
10 And he would not have the ark of our Lord turn in to himself into the city of David: but he caused it to turn in unto the house of Obededom the Gethite.📜💬📚
11 And the ark of our Lord dwelt in the house of Obededom the Gethite three months: & our Lord blessed Obededom, & all his house,📜💬📚
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