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2Samuel 6
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David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem

6David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.H1732H622H3254H977H3478H7970H505 2David and all the people with him set out and went from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who is enthroned on the cherubim.H1732H6965H3212H5971H1184H5927H727H430H8034H7121H8034H3068H6635H3427H3742 3They carried the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cartH7392H727H430H2319H5699H5375H1004H41H1390H5798H283H1121H41H5090H2319H5699 4with the ark of God; and Ahio went in front of the ark.H5375H1004H41H1390H5973H727H430H283H1980H6440H727 5David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.H1732H1004H3478H7832H6440H3068H1265H6086H3658H5035H8596H4517H6767 6When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.H935H5225H1637H5798H7971H727H430H270H1241H8058 7The anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there because he reached out his hand to the ark; and he died there beside the ark of God.H639H3068H2734H5798H430H5221H7944H4191H727H430 8David was angry because the LORD had burst forth with an outburst upon Uzzah; so that place is called Perez-uzzah, to this day.H1732H2734H3068H6555H6556H5798H7121H4725H6560H3117 9David was afraid of the LORD that day; he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come into my care?"H1732H3372H3068H3117H559H727H3068H935 10So David was unwilling to take the ark of the LORD into his care in the city of David; instead David took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.H1732H14H5493H727H3068H5892H1732H1732H5186H1004H5654H1663 11The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household.H727H3068H3427H1004H5654H1663H7969H2320H3068H1288H5654H1004 12It was told King David, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God." So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing;H5046H4428H1732H559H3068H1288H1004H5654H727H430H1732H3212H5927H727H430H1004H5654H5892H1732H8057 13and when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.H5375H727H3068H6805H8337H6806H2076H7794H4806 14David danced before the LORD with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.H1732H3769H6440H3068H5797H1732H2296H906H646 15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.H1732H1004H3478H5927H727H3068H8643H6963H7782 16As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.H727H3068H935H5892H1732H4324H7586H1323H8259H2474H7200H4428H1732H6339H3769H6440H3068H959H3820 17They brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the LORD.H935H727H3068H3322H4725H8432H168H1732H5186H1732H5927H5930H8002H6440H3068 18When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the offerings of well-being, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts,H1732H3615H5927H5930H8002H1288H5971H8034H3068H6635 19and distributed food among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people went back to their homes.H2505H5971H1995H3478H802H376H376H259H2471H3899H829H809H5971H3212H376H1004 20David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' maids, as any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!"H1732H7725H1288H1004H4324H1323H7586H3318H7125H1732H559H3513H4428H3478H3117H1540H3117H5869H519H5650H259H7386H1540H1540 21David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me in place of your father and all his household, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD, that I have danced before the LORD.H1732H559H4324H6440H3068H977H1H1004H6680H5057H5971H3068H3478H7832H6440H3068 22I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in my own eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor."H7043H2063H8217H5869H519H559H3513 23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.H4324H1323H7586H2056H3206H3117H4194


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