1 Chronicles 13
1 David consulted with the commanders of thousands and hundreds, with all the leaders.
2 David said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this comes from the LORD our God, let us send word to our brothers who remain throughout all the lands of Israel, and to the priests and Levites with them, in the towns with their pasturelands, so they may gather to us.
3 Let us bring back to us the ark of our God, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul.”
4 The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
5 David gathered all Israel, from the Shihor of Egypt to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, the LORD who is enthroned above the cherubim, whose Name is invoked there.
7 They placed the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab; Uzza and Ahio were guiding the cart.
8 David and all Israel celebrated before God with all their might, with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
9 They came to the threshing floor of Chidon, and Uzza reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled.
10 The LORD’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he had reached out his hand to the ark. Uzza died there before God.
11 David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzza. That place has been called Perez-uzza to this day.
12 That day David feared God and said, “How can I bring the ark of God to myself?”
13 David did not bring the ark to himself, to the City of David, but diverted it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
14 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that he had.
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