1 Chronicles 15:14

So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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In The King James Version

So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

In Context

13For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

15And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

2 Chronicles 29:15And they got their brothers together and made themselves holy, and went in, as the king had said by the word of the Lord, to make the house of the Lord clean.

Nehemiah 12:30And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.

Matthew Henry on 1 Chronicles 15:2-25

The Removal of the Ark. ( b. c. 1047.) 1 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. 2 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. 3 And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto his place, which he had prepared for it. 4 And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: 5 Of… Read the whole commentary →

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