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          DASV: 1 Chronicles 13    

1 David consulted with all the commanders of thousands and hundreds, in fact, with every leader.
2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is the will of the LORD our God, let us send out everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, including the priests and Levites who are in their towns with pasturelands, inviting them to join us.
3 Let us bring again the ark of our God to us; for we did not make inquires of it in the days of Saul."
4 All the assembly agreed to do this; for it seemed right in the eyes of all the people.

5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt up to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
6 David and all Israel, went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, that is called by his name, the LORD, who sits between the cherubim.
7 They hauled the ark of God up on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab. Uzzah and Ahio drove the cart.

8 David and all Israel celebrated before God with all their might, singing songs, with harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to grab hold of the ark, because the oxen stumbled.
10 Then LORD was furious with Uzzah, and he killed him, because he reached out his hand to touch the ark. So he died there before God.

11 David was angry, because the LORD had broken out on Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah [meaning "Broken out on Uzzah"] to this day.
12 Then David was afraid of God that day and asked, "How can I bring the ark of God to be with me?"
13 So David did not bring the ark to him in the city of David, but left it in the house of Obed-edom from Gath.
14 The ark of God stayed with the family of Obed-edom in his house for three months. The LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

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