UST 1 CHR Chapter 13

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13 One day David spoke with all of his army officers. Some of them commanded 1,000 soldiers, and the others commanded 100 soldiers. 2 Then David summoned the other Israelite leaders and said to them, “If you think it is a good idea, and if it is what Yahweh our God wants, let us send a message to our other kinsmen throughout the land of Israel. Let us include the priests and Levites who live among them in their towns and in the surrounding rural areas. Let us ask them to come and join us. 3 Then let us all together bring the sacred chest of our God here to Jerusalem. We did not ask God what he wanted us to do while Saul was king, so we should bring the chest here so we can do that now..” 4 All of the leaders thought that this was the right thing to do. So they told David that he should do what he had suggested.

5 So David sent messengers to tell other Israelites to come and help bring God’s sacred chest to Jerusalem from the city of Kiriath Jearim. Israelites came from as far south as Shihor River on the border of Egypt. They came from as far north as the mountain pass of Lebo Hamath. 6 David went with a great crowd of Israelites to the city of Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, in the territory of the tribe of Judah. They went there to get the chest of God. Yahweh was present in a special way between the statues of the winged creatures on top of the chest. People call that chest “The Box of Yahweh.”

7 The sacred chest was at the house of a man whose name was Abinadab. The people used a new cart to carry it from there. Two oxen were pulling the cart, and Abinadab’s two sons Uzzah and Ahio were guiding them. 8 David and the other Israelites were celebrating greatly in God’s presence as they walked with the sacred chest. People were singing and playing musical instruments including harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

9 But when they came to the place in the area of Chidon where people threshed grain, the oxen tripped. Because that made the cart tilt so that the sacred chest might have fallen off of it, Uzzah put his hand on the sacred chest to steady it. 10 Yahweh became very angry with Uzzah for putting his hand on the chest. He killed him right there next to it.

11 David became angry because Yahweh had punished Uzzah. David called that place Perez Uzzah, and that has been its name ever since.

12 Then David became afraid of what else God might do to punish them, and he said, “It is too dangerous for me to try to bring the sacred chest to where I live in Jerusalem!” 13 So David decided not to bring the sacred chest to the City of David where he lived. Instead, he had the people take it into a house that was there by the road. A man whose name was Obed Edom the Gittite lived in that house. 14 The sacred chest stayed in the house of Obed Edom with his family for the next three months. During that time, Yahweh made good things happen for his family and everything he owned.

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UST 1 CHR Chapter 13

UST 1 CHR Chapter 13