1 Chronicles 15:14

So the priests and the Levites were sanctified, to carry the ark of the Lord the God of Israel.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

13Lest 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.

15And the sons of Levi took the ark of God as Moses had commanded, according to the word of the Lord, upon their shoulders, with the staves.

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:3And Moses said to Aaron: This is what the Lord hath spoken: I will be sanctified in them that approach to me, and I will be glorified in the sight of all the people. And when Aaron heard this, he held his peace.

2 Chronicles 29:15And they gathered together their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and went in according to the commandment of the king, and the precept of the Lord, to purify the house of God.

Nehemiah 12:30And the priests and the Levites purified, and they purified the people, and the gates, 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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