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1 Chronicles 15:13

Because you weren't there the first time to carry the Ark the Lord our God burst out in violence against us. We didn't treat it in accordance with his instructions.”

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

In Context

12He told them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You must make yourselves and your relatives ceremonially clean and pure before you bring back the Ark of God, the Lord of Israel to the place I have made for it.

14So the priests and the Levites purified themselves so that they could bring back the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 7:9He didn't give any wagons or oxen to the Kohathites because their responsibility was to carry on their shoulders the holy objects assigned to their care.

2 Samuel 6:3They placed the Ark of God on a new cart and brought it from Abinadab's house, which was on a hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab's sons, were directing the cart

2 Samuel 6:8David was angry because of the Lord's violent outburst against Uzzah. He called the place Perez-uzzah, which is still its name today.

1 Chronicles 13:7They loaded the Ark of God onto a brand new cart and brought it from Adinadab's house, with Uzzah and Ahio directing it.

1 Chronicles 15:2Then he gave orders: “Nobody is to carry the Ark of God except the Levites, for the Lord himself chose them to carry the Ark of the Lord and to serve him forever.”

Proverbs 28:13People who hide their sins won't succeed, but those who confess and renounce their sins will be shown kindness.

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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