1Ch 13:1-13 - Commentary

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Text -- 1 Chronicles 13:1-13 (NET)

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Uzzah Meets Disaster

13:1 David consulted with his military officers, including those who led groups of a thousand and those who led groups of a hundred. 13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, let’s spread the word to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, so they may join us. 13:3 Let’s move the ark of our God back here, for we did not seek his will throughout Saul’s reign.” 13:4 The whole assembly agreed to do this, for the proposal seemed right to all the people. 13:5 So David assembled all Israel from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. 13:6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah (that is, Kiriath Jearim) in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who sits enthroned between the cherubim– the ark that is called by his name. 13:7 They transported the ark on a new cart from the house of Abinadab; Uzzah and Ahio were guiding the cart, 13:8 while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. 13:9 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. He died right there before God. 13:11 David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day. 13:12 David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?” 13:13 So David did not move the ark to the City of David; he left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

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Names, People and Places:

· Abinadab the Levite who received the ark back from the Philistines,the son of Jesse, David's brother,the son of Saul of Benjami

· Ahio son of the Levite Abinadab in David's time,son of Beriah of Benjamin,son of Jeiel of Benjamin

· Baalah a town 12 km WNW of Jerusalem, bordering Judah, Benjamin & Dan,a hill on the NW frontier of Judah, 10 or so km NW of Ekron,a town in the Negeb on the border of Simeon and Judah

· Chidon a place or person who had a threshing floor

· City of David the capital of Israel, on the border of Benjamin and Judah

· city of David the capital of Israel, on the border of Benjamin and Judah

· David a son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel,son of Jesse of Judah; king of Israel

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· Gittite resident(s) of the town of Gath

· hamath a town of Syria on the Orontes between Aleppo and Damascus (OS)

· Hamath a town of unknown location

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Judah the son of Jacob and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,a tribe, the land/country,a son of Joseph; the father of Simeon; an ancestor of Jesus,son of Jacob/Israel and Leah; founder of the tribe of Judah,the tribe of Judah,citizens of the southern kingdom of Judah,citizens of the Persian Province of Judah; the Jews who had returned from Babylonian exile,"house of Judah", a phrase which highlights the political leadership of the tribe of Judah,"king of Judah", a phrase which relates to the southern kingdom of Judah,"kings of Judah", a phrase relating to the southern kingdom of Judah,"princes of Judah", a phrase relating to the kingdom of Judah,the territory allocated to the tribe of Judah, and also the extended territory of the southern kingdom of Judah,the Province of Judah under Persian rule,"hill country of Judah", the relatively cool and green central highlands of the territory of Judah,"the cities of Judah",the language of the Jews; Hebrew,head of a family of Levites who returned from Exile,a Levite who put away his heathen wife,a man who was second in command of Jerusalem; son of Hassenuah of Benjamin,a Levite in charge of the songs of thanksgiving in Nehemiah's time,a leader who helped dedicate Nehemiah's wall,a Levite musician who helped Zechariah of Asaph dedicate Nehemiah's wall

· Levites relating to Levi and the priesthood given to him,a tribal name describing people and ceremonies as sacred

· Obed-Edom a man to whom King David gave charge of the ark,a Levite worship leader and porter for the ark in David's time,a man of Gath in whose care David left the ark,a man taken away with the treasures of the temple

· Obed-edom a man to whom King David gave charge of the ark,a Levite worship leader and porter for the ark in David's time,a man of Gath in whose care David left the ark,a man taken away with the treasures of the temple

· Perez-uzzah a place where God killed Uzzah when he touched the ark.

· Perez-Uzzah a place where God killed Uzzah when he touched the ark.

· Saul the sixth king of Edom,son of Simeon and a Canaanite woman,son of Uzziah of Kohath son of Levi

· Shihor the river channel of the NE limits of the Nile delta

· Uzzah son Abinadab, the Levite who kept the ark for David,son of Shimei, a Levite of the clan of Merari

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:1 Heb “and David consulted with the officers of thousands and hundreds, to every ruler.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:2 Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:3 Heb “in the days of Saul.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:4 Heb “for right was the word in the eyes of all the people.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:5 Or “the entrance to Hamath.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:6 Heb “the ark of God the Lord who sits [between] the cherubim which is called [by his] name.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:8 Heb “with songs and with zithers [meaning uncertain] and with harps.” Due to the collocation with “harps,” some type of string...

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:9 Or “to steady.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:10 The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a c...

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:11 The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

NET Notes: 1Ch 13:13 The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.

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