1 Chronicles 15:13
Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark of the Lord the God of Israel.
Cross References
Numbers 7:9The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.
2 Samuel 6:3And they laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa: and Oza, and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.
2 Samuel 6:8And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.
1 Chronicles 13:7And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, out of the house of Abinadab. And Oza and his brother drove the cart.
1 Chronicles 15:2Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever.
Proverbs 28:13He that hideth his sins, shall not prosper: but he that shall confess, and forsake them, shall obtain mercy.
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 →