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1 Chronicles 13:7 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart. "
1 Chronicles 13:7
Verse in Context
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5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.
6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God the LORD’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.
7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.
8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
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1 Chronicles 13:1
"David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader."
1 Chronicles 13:2
"David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word 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 pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us."
1 Chronicles 13:3
"Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”"
1 Chronicles 13:4
"All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people."
1 Chronicles 13:5
"So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim."
1 Chronicles 13:6
"David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God the LORD’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name."
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