The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 12:34 (ESV)


And of Naphtali a thousand captains, and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 12: 35. Of the Danites who could set the battle in array, twenty-eight thousand six hundred.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 12:36 (NIV)
from Asher, experienced soldiers prepared for battle--40,000;

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 12: 37. On the other side of the Jordan, of the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and of the half-tribe of Manasseh, with all kinds of instruments of war for the battle, one hundred twenty thousand.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 12:38 (ESV)


All these, men of war, arrayed in battle order, came to Hebron with a whole heart to make David king over all Israel. Likewise, all the rest of Israel were of a single mind to make David king.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 12:39 (ESV)


And they were there with David for three days, eating and drinking, for their brothers had made preparation for them.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 12: 40. Moreover those who were near to them, [even] as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on donkeys, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, food of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and cattle, and sheep in abundance: for there was joy in Israel.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:1 New International Version (NIV)

Bringing Back the Ark

1) David conferred with each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:2 (NIV)


He then said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send word far and wide to the rest of our people throughout the territories of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and pasturelands, to come and join us.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 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."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 13:4 (BSB)
And because this proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to do it.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:5 (NIV)


So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath,to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:6 (NIV)


David and all Israel went to Baalahof Judah (Kiriath Jearim) to bring up from there the ark of God the Lord, who is enthroned between the cherubim—the ark that is called by the Name.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 13: 7. And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:8 (NIV)


David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:9 (NIV)


When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled.

 

[Dan_473]

1 Chronicles 13: 10. And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzza, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there before God.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:11 (ESV)


And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.

 

[Deade]

1 Chronicles 13:12 (ESV)


And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, “How can I bring the ark of God home to me?”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

1 Chronicles 13:13 (BSB)
So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.