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David consulted with the
captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
{13:2} David said to all the assembly of
Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of Yahweh our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our
brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and
Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
{13:3} and let us bring again the
ark of our God to us. For we didn't seek it in the days of Saul."
{13:4} All the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
{13:5} So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the
brook of Egypt even to the entrance of
Hamath, to bring the ark of God from
Kiriath Jearim.
{13:6} David went up, and all Israel, to
Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to
Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits above the
cherubim, that is called by the Name.
{13:7} They carried the ark of God on a new
cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab: and Uzza and
Ahio drove the cart.
{13:8} David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with
harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with
cymbals, and with trumpets.
{13:9} When they came to the threshing floor of
Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
{13:10} The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God.
{13:11} David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken forth on Uzza; and he called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
{13:12} David was afraid of God that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?"
{13:13} So David didn't move the ark to him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite.
{13:14} The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months: and Yahweh
blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that he had.
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