The First Book of Chronicles, starting at chapter 13
{13:1} 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.
{14:1} Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees,
and masons, and carpenters, to build him a house. {14:2} David
perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his
kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel's sake. {14:3}
David took more wives at Jerusalem; and David became the father of
more sons and daughters. {14:4} These are the names of the children
whom he had in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,
{14:5} and Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpelet, {14:6} and Nogah, and
Nepheg, and Japhia, {14:7} and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
{14:8} When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over
all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard
of it, and went out against them. {14:9} Now the Philistines had come
and made a raid in the valley of Rephaim. {14:10} David inquired of
God, saying, "Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you deliver
them into my hand?"
Yahweh said to him, "Go up; for I will deliver them into your hand."
{14:11} So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them
there; and David said, God has broken my enemies by my hand, like the
breach of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal
Perazim. {14:12} They left their gods there; and David gave
commandment, and they were burned with fire. {14:13} The Philistines
yet again made a raid in the valley. {14:14} David inquired again of
God; and God said to him, "You shall not go up after them. Turn away
from them, and come on them over against the mulberry trees. {14:15}
It shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the
mulberry trees, that then you shall go out to battle; for God has gone
out before you to strike the army of the Philistines."
{14:16} David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of
the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer. {14:17} The fame of David
went out into all lands; and Yahweh brought the fear of him on all
nations.
{15:1} [David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared
a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. {15:2} Then
David said, "No one ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites. For
Yahweh has chosen them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him
forever."
{15:3} David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark
of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it. {15:4} David
gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites: {15:5} of the
sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and his brothers one hundred twenty;
{15:6} of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brothers two
hundred twenty; {15:7} of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and his
brothers one hundred thirty; {15:8} of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah
the chief, and his brothers two hundred; {15:9} of the sons of Hebron,
Eliel the chief, and his brothers eighty; {15:10} of the sons of
Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and his brothers one hundred twelve.
{15:11} David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the
Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab, {15:12} and said to them, "You are the heads of the
fathers' [houses] of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, both you and
your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. {15:13} For because
you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against
us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance."
{15:14} So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to
bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. {15:15} The children of
the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles
thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh. {15:16}
David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the
singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments and harps and
cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy. {15:17} So
the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers,
Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers,
Ethan the son of Kushaiah; {15:18} and with them their brothers of the
second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and
Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah,
and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the
doorkeepers. {15:19} So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were
appointed] with cymbals of brass to sound aloud; {15:20} and
Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and
Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to
Alamoth; {15:21} and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and
Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the
eight-stringed lyre, to lead. {15:22} Chenaniah, chief of the Levites,
was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was
skillful. {15:23} Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
{15:24} Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and
Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the
trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark. {15:25} So David, and the elders of Israel,
and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy. {15:26} It
happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant
of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. {15:27}
David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who
bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song
[with] the singers: and David had on him an ephod of linen. {15:28}
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with
shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with
cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps. {15:29}
It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of
David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and
saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.
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