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13:3 Let’s move <05437> the ark <0727> of our God <0430> back <05437> here <0413>, for <03588> we did not <03808> seek <01875> his will throughout Saul’s <07586> reign <03117>.” 13:4 The whole <03605> assembly <06951> agreed <0559> to do <06213> this <03651>, for <03588> the proposal <01697> seemed <05869> right <03474> to all <03605> the people <05971>. 13:5 So David <01732> assembled <06950> all <03605> Israel <03478> from <04480> the Shihor River <07883> in Egypt <04714> to <05704> Lebo Hamath <02574>, to bring <0935> the ark <0727> of God <0430> from Kiriath Jearim <07157>. 13:6 David <01732> and all <03605> Israel <03478> went up <05927> to <0413> Baalah <01173> (that <0834> is, Kiriath Jearim <07157>) in Judah <03063> to bring up <05927> from there <08033> the ark <0727> of God <0430> the Lord <03068>, who sits <03427> enthroned between the cherubim <03742>– the ark that <0834> is called <07121> by his name <08034>. 13:7 They transported <07392> the ark <0430> <0727> on <05921> a new <02319> cart <05699> from the house <01004> of Abinadab <041>; Uzzah <05798> and Ahio <0283> were guiding <05090> the cart <05699>, 13:8 while David <01732> and all <03605> Israel <03478> were energetically <05797> celebrating <07832> before <06440> God <0430>, singing <07892> and playing various <03605> stringed instruments <05035> <03658>, tambourines <08596>, cymbals <04700>, and trumpets <02689>. 13:9 When <05704> they arrived <0935> at the threshing floor <01637> of Kidon <03592>, Uzzah <05798> reached out <07971> his hand <03027> to take hold <0270> of the ark <0727>, because <03588> the oxen <01241> stumbled <08058>. 13:10 The Lord <03068> was so furious <0639> <02734> with Uzzah <05798>, he killed <05221> him, because <0834> <05921> he reached out <07971> his hand <03027> and touched <05921> the ark <0727>. He died <04191> right there <08033> before <06440> God <0430>. 13:11 David <01732> was angry <02734> because <03588> the Lord <03068> attacked <06556> <06555> Uzzah <05798>; so he called <07121> that place <04725> Perez Uzzah <06560>, which remains <05704> its name to this <02088> very day <03117>. 13:12 David <01732> was afraid <03372> of God <0430> that day <03117> and said <0559>, “How <01963> will I ever be able to bring <0935> the ark <0727> of God <0430> up <0413> here?” 13:13 So David <01732> did not <03808> move <05493> the ark <0727> to <0413> the City <05892> of David <01732>; he left <05186> it in <0413> the house <01004> of Obed-Edom <05654> the Gittite <01663>. 13:14 The ark <0727> of God <0430> remained <03427> in <05973> Obed-Edom’s <05654> house <01004> for three <07969> months <02320>; the Lord <03068> blessed <01288> Obed-Edom’s <05654> family <01004> and everything <03605> that <0834> belonged to him.

• 1Ch 13:1-14 -- Uzzah Meets Disaster

• David

  [isbe] DAVID - da'-vid (dawidh, or dawidh, "beloved"; Daueid, also in New Testament, Dauid, Dabid; see Thayer's Lexicon): I. NAME AND GENEALOGY II. EARLY YEARS 1. Shepherd 2. Slinger 3. Harpist 4. Poet 5. Psalmist 6. Tribesman III....
  [nave] DAVID 1. King of Israel. Genealogy of, Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Sam. 16:11; 17:12; 1 Chr. 2:3-15; Matt. 1:1-6; Luke 3:31-38. A shepherd, 1 Sam. 16:11. Kills a lion and a bear, 1 Sam. 17:34-36. Anointed king, while a youth, by the ...
  

• Abinadab

  [ebd] father of nobleness; i.e., "noble." (1.) A Levite of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the ark of the covenant was deposited after having been brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam. 7:1). It remained there twenty...
  [isbe] ABINADAB - a-bin'-a-dab ('abhinadhabh, "father of willingness," or, "my father is willing." This is according to the ordinary usage of the second word in the name--"willing" rather than "munificent" or "noble"): (1) The man ...
  [smith] A Levite, a native of Kirjath-jearim, in whose house the ark remained 20 years. (1 Samuel 7:1,2; 1 Chronicles 13:7) (B.C. 1124.) Second son of Jesse, who followed Saul to his war against the Philistines, (1 Samuel 1...
  [nave] ABINADAB 1. A Levite, in whose house the ark of God rested twenty years, 1 Sam. 7:1, 2; 2 Sam. 6:3, 4; 1 Chr. 13:7. 2. Son of Jesse, 1 Sam. 16:8; 17:13. 3. Called also Ishui, son of Saul, 1 Sam. 14:49; 31:2. 4. Father of ...
  

• ARK OF THE COVENANT

  [isbe] ARK OF THE COVENANT - kuv'-e-nant ('aron ha-berith): I. The Statements of the Old Testament Concerning the Ark of the Covenant. 1. Pentateuch: In Ex 25:10 ff, Moses receives the command to build an ark of acacia wood. Within...
  [smith] The first piece of the tabernacle?s furniture, for which precise directions were delivered. Exod 25. I. Description. -- It appears to have been an oblong chest of shittim (acacia) wood, 2 1/2 cubits long by 1 1/2 broad and de...
  

• Chronicles, Books of

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Uzzah

  [ebd] strength, a son of Abinadab, in whose house the men of Kirjath-jearim placed the ark when it was brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam. 7:1). He with his brother Ahio drove the cart on which the ark was placed...
  [nave] UZZAH 1. Called also Uzza, son of Abinadab. Driver of the cart in moving the ark, 2 Sam. 6:3; 1 Chr. 13:7. Stricken dead for touching the ark, 2 Sam. 6:6-8; 1 Chr. 13:9-11. 2. See: Uzza, 2.
  

• UZZA; UZZAH

  [isbe] UZZA; UZZAH - uz'-a, uz'-a ('uzzah (2 Sam 6:6-8), otherwise `uzza' meaning uncertain): (1) One of those who accompanied the ark on its journey from Kiriath-jearim toward David's citadel (2 Sam 6:3-8, "Uzzah" = 1 Ch 13:7-11, ...
  

• Kirjath-jearim

  [nave] KIRJATH-JEARIM, called also Baalah, one of the four cities of the Gibeonites. Inhabitants of, not killed, on account of the covenant made by the Israelites with the Gibeonites, but put under servitude, Josh. 9:17, with verses...
  

• Ahio

  [ebd] brotherly. (1.) One of the sons of Beriah (1 Chr. 8:14). (2.) One of the sons of Jehiel the Gibeonite (1 Chr. 8:31; 9:37). (3.) One of the sons of Abinadab the Levite. While Uzzah went by the side of the ark, he walked befor...
  [isbe] AHIO - a-hi'-o ('achyo, variously explained as "his brother," "brotherly," "brother of Yahweh," "my brother is Yah"): Proper names containing a similar form of the name of Yahweh are found on the ostraca recently exhumed at ...
  [smith] (brotherly). Son of Abinadab, who accompanied the ark when it was brought out of his father?s house. (2 Samuel 6:3,4; 1 Chronicles 13:7) (B.C.1043.) A Benjamite, one of the sons of Beriah. (1 Chronicles 8:14) A Benj...
  [nave] AHIO 1. A Levite, who drove the cart bearing the ark, 2 Sam. 6:3, 4; 1 Chr. 13:7. 2. A Benjamite, 1 Chr. 8:14. 3. Son of Jehiel, 1 Chr. 8:31; 9:37.
  

• UZZA

  [smith] (strength). A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. (1 Chronicles 8:7) (B.C. 1445.) Elsewhere called UZZA, OR UZZAH. (1 Chronicles 13:7,9,10,11) [UZZA, OR UZZAH] The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned wit...
  

• Obed-edom

  [isbe] OBED-EDOM - o'-bed-e'-dom (`obhedh 'edhowm (2 Ch 25:24), `obhedd 'edhom (2 Sam 6:10; 1 Ch 13:13,14; 15:25), but elsewhere without hyphen, "servant of (god) Edom"; so W. R. Smith, Religion of Semites (2), 42, and H. P. Smith,...
  [nave] OBED-EDOM 1. Korhite Levite. Doorkeeper of the ark, 1 Chr. 15:18, 24; 26:4-8. David leaves ark with, 2 Sam. 6:10; 1 Chr. 13:13, 14. Ark removed from, 2 Sam. 6:12; 1 Chr. 15:25. Appointed to sound with harps, 1 Chr. 15:21....
  

• Sihor

  [ebd] (correctly Shi'hor) black; dark the name given to the river Nile in Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18. In Josh. 13:3 it is probably "the river of Egypt", i.e., the Wady el-Arish (1 Chr. 13:5), which flows "before Egypt", i.e., in a north...
  [smith] (dark), accurately Shi?hor, once The Shihor, or Shihor of Egypt, when unqualified a name of the Nile. It is held to signify "the black" or "turbid." In Jeremiah the identity of Shihor with the Nile seems distinctly stated. (J...
  [nave] SIHOR, called also Shihor. A river of Egypt, given by some authorities as the Nile, Josh. 13:3; 1 Chr. 13:5; Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18.
  

• Chidon

  [ebd] dart, the name of the threshing-floor at which the death of Uzzah took place (1 Chr. 13:9). In the parallel passage in Samuel (2 Sam. 6:6) it is called "Nachon's threshing-floor." It was a place not far north-west from Jerus...
  [smith] (a javelin), the name which in (1 Chronicles 13:9) is given to the threshing-floor at which the accident to the ark took place. In the parallel account in 2Sam 6 the name is given as NACHON.
  [nave] CHIDON Place where Uzza was stricken to death, 1 Chr. 13:9. Called Nachon's threshing floor, 2 Sam. 6:6.
  

• Nachon

  [ebd] prepared, the owner of a thrashing-floor near which Uzzah was slain (2 Sam. 6:6); called also Chidon (1 Chr. 13:9).
  [nave] NACHON, called also Chidon. Uzzah slain at the threshing floor of, 2 Sam. 6:6, 7; 1 Chr. 13:9.
  

• Tact

  [nave] TACT Prov. 15:1; 25:15. In preaching, 1 Cor. 9:19-22; 2 Cor. 12:6. Of Gideon, Judg. 8:1-3. Of Saul, in managing malcontents, 1 Sam. 10:27; 11:7, 12-15. Nabal's wife, Abigail, 1 Sam. 25:18-37. In David's popular methods:...
  

• MUSIC

  [isbe] MUSIC - mu'-zik: I. IMPORTANCE 1. The Sole Art Cultivated 2. A Wide Vocabulary of Musical Terms 3. Place in Social and Personal Life 4. Universal Language of Emotions 5. Use in Divine Service 6. Part at Religious Reformation...
  [smith] The most ancient music. --The inventor of musical instruments, like the first poet and the first forger of metals, was a Cainite. We learn from (Genesis 4:21) that Jubal the son of Lamech was "the father of all such as handl...
  

• BAALAH

  [ebd] mistress; city. (1.) A city in the south of Judah (Josh. 15:29), elsewhere called Balah (Josh. 19:3) and Bilhah (1 Chr. 4:29). Now Khurbet Zebalah. (2.) A city on the northern border of the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:10), call...
  [isbe] BAALAH - ba'-a-la ba`alah; "possessor," "mistress "): Three occurrences of this name: (1) = KIRIATH-JEARIM (which see) (Josh 15:9,10; 1 Ch 13:6). (2) A city in the Negeb of Judah (Josh 15:29). In Josh 19:3 Balah and in 1 Ch ...
  

• KIRJATHJEARIM

  [smith] (the city of forests), first mentioned as one of the four cities of the Gibeonites, (Joshua 9:17) it next occurs as one of the landmarks of the northern boundary of Judah, ch (Joshua 15:9) and as the point at which the wester...
  

• Ark

  [nave] ARK 1. Noah's. Directions for building of, Gen. 6:14-16. Noah and family preserved in, Gen. 6:18; 7:8; Matt. 24:38; Heb. 11:7; 1 Pet. 3:20. Animals saved in, Gen. 6:19, 20; 7:1-16. 2. Of Bulrushes, Ex. 2:3. 3. In the Tab...
  

• UZZA, OR UZZAH

  [smith] (strength), one of the sons of Abinadab, in whose house at Kirjath-jearim the ark rested for twenty years. Uzzah probably was the second and Ahio the third. They both accompanied its removal when David first undertook to carr...
  

• The Ark Brought to Zion

  

• What Was the Real Sin of Uzzah?
  The sin of Uzzah (I Chron. 13:9,10) and its sudden punishment have been a subject of much discussion. None but priests of Aaron's family (that is, of the priest's household) were permitted to touch the Ark. Uzzah was of a Lev...

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