1 Chronicles 13 Cross References - BBE

¹ Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief. ² And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us; ³ And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions. ⁴ And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them. ⁵ So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. ⁶ And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones. 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. ⁸ Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns. ⁹ And when they came to the grain-floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to keep the ark in its place, for the oxen were slipping. 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. ¹¹ And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day. ¹² And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me? ¹³ So David did not let the ark come back to him to the town of David, but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹⁴ And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.

¹ And David got together all the fighting-men of Israel to the number of thirty thousand;

¹ Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

¹⁴ These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of them was captain over a hundred men, and the greatest over a thousand.

²⁰ Then when he went back to Ziklag, there came over to him, of the men of Manasseh, Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zillethai, captains of thousands from the armies of Manasseh.

³² And of the children of Issachar, there were two hundred chiefs, men who had expert knowledge of the times and what it was best for Israel to do, and all their brothers were under their orders.

²⁰ Then Hezekiah the king got up early, and got together the great men of the town, and went up to the house of the Lord.

²⁹ Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem. ³⁰ And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the Levites and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

²³ If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

⁴ And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things. ⁵ When all the people go forward, Aaron is to go in with his sons, and take down the veil of the curtain, covering the ark of witness with it; ⁶ And putting over it the leather cover and over that a blue cloth; and putting its rods in place. ⁷ And on the table of the holy bread they are to put a blue cloth, and on it all the vessels, the spoons and the basins and the cups; and the holy bread with them; ⁸ And over them they are to put a red cloth, covering it with a leather cover, and putting its rods in their places. ⁹ And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it: ¹⁰ All these they are to put in a leather cover, and put it on the frame. ¹¹ On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places. ¹² All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame. ¹³ And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it; ¹⁴ Placing on the cloth all its vessels, the fire-baskets, the meat-hooks, the spades, and the basins; all the vessels of the altar; they are to put a leather cover over all these, and put its rods in their places. ¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death. ¹⁶ And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care. ¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ¹⁸ Do not let the family of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites; ¹⁹ But do this to them, so that life and not death may be theirs when they come near the most holy things; let Aaron and his sons go in and give to every one his work and that which he is to take up; ²⁰ But they themselves are not to go in to see the holy place, even for a minute, for fear of death.

² Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns. ³ These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts, ⁴ Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round. ⁵ The measure of this space of land is to be two thousand cubits outside the town on the east, and two thousand cubits on the south and on the west and on the north, the town being in the middle. This space will be the outskirts of their towns. ⁶ And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns. ⁷ Forty-eight towns are to be given to the Levites, all with land round them. ⁸ And these towns are to be given out of the heritage of the children of Israel, taking the greater number from those who have much, and a smaller number from those who have little: everyone, in the measure of his heritage, is to give of his property to the Levites. ⁹ And the Lord said to Moses,

¹ Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel: and the men of Israel went in flight before the Philistines, falling down wounded in Mount Gilboa.

² The king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God is housed inside the curtains of a tent. ³ And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you. ⁴ Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying, ⁵ Go and say to my servant David, The Lord says, Are you to be the builder of a house, a living-place for me?

⁷ And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.

¹⁵ But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.} And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.

⁵⁴ Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection, ⁵⁵ To them they gave Hebron and its outskirts in the land of Judah; ⁵⁶ But the open country of the town, and the small places round it, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh. ⁵⁷ And to the sons of Aaron they gave Hebron, the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, and Libnah with its outskirts, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa with its outskirts, ⁵⁸ And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts, ⁵⁹ And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts; ⁶⁰ And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns. ⁶¹ And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁶² And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns. ⁶³ And to the sons of Merari, by their families, twelve towns were given by the Lord's decision, out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the towns with their outskirts. ⁶⁵ And they gave by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these towns whose names are given. ⁶⁶ And to the families of the sons of Kohath were given towns by the Lord's decision out of the tribe of Ephraim. ⁶⁷ And they gave them the town to which men might go in flight and be safe, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its outskirts, and Gezer with its outskirts, ⁶⁸ And Jokmeam with its outskirts, and Beth-horon with its outskirts, ⁶⁹ And Aijalon with its outskirts, and Gath-rimmon with its outskirts; ⁷⁰ And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Aner with its outskirts, and Bileam with its outskirts, for the rest of the family of the sons of Kohath. ⁷¹ To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts; ⁷² And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with its outskirts, and Daberath with its outskirts, ⁷³ And Ramoth with its outskirts, and Anem with its outskirts; ⁷⁴ And out of the tribe of Asher, Mashal with its outskirts, and Abdon with its outskirts, ⁷⁵ And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts; ⁷⁶ And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its outskirts, and Hammon with its outskirts, and Kiriathaim with its outskirts. ⁷⁷ To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts; ⁷⁸ And on the other side of Jordan, at Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, were given them, out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the waste land with its outskirts, and Jahzah with its outskirts, ⁷⁹ And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts; ⁸⁰ And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its outskirts, and Mahanaim with its outskirts, ⁸¹ And Heshbon with its outskirts, and Jazer with its outskirts.

⁷ And when all the men of Israel who were in the valley saw that the men of Israel had gone in flight and that Saul and his sons were dead, they went in flight away from their towns; and the Philistines came and took them for themselves.

² Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever. ³ And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it. ⁴ And David got together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites; ⁵ Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twenty; ⁶ Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty; ⁷ Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty; ⁸ Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred; ⁹ Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty; ¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve. ¹¹ And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab, ¹² And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it. ¹³ For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way. ¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁴ In addition, he gave orders to the people of Jerusalem to give to the priests and Levites that part which was theirs by right, so that they might be strong in keeping the law of the Lord. ⁵ And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store. ⁶ And the children of Israel and Judah, who were living in the towns of Judah came with the tenth part of their oxen and sheep, and a tenth of all the holy things which were to be given to the Lord their God, and put them in great masses. ⁷ The first store of things was put down in the third month, and in the seventh month the masses were complete. ⁸ And when Hezekiah and the rulers came and saw all the store of goods, they gave praise to the Lord and to his people Israel. ⁹ Then Hezekiah put questions to the priests and Levites about the store of goods. ¹⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used. ¹¹ Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done. ¹² And in them they put all the offerings and the tenths and the holy things, keeping nothing back, and over them was Conaniah the Levite, with Shimei his brother second to him. ¹³ And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God. ¹⁴ And Kore, the son of Imnah the Levite, the keeper of the east door, had control of the offerings freely given to God, and the distribution of the offerings of the Lord and the most holy things. ¹⁵ And under him were Eden and Miniamin and Jeshua and Shemaiah and Amariah and Shecaniah, in the towns of the priests, who were made responsible for giving it to all their brothers, by divisions, to small and great: ¹⁶ As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions. ¹⁷ And the families of the priests were listed by their fathers' names, but the Levites, of twenty years old and over, were listed in relation to their work in their divisions; ¹⁸ And in the lists were all their little ones and their wives and their sons and daughters, through all the people: they made themselves holy in the positions which they were given. ¹⁹ And as for the sons of Aaron, the priests, living in the country on the outskirts of their towns, every different town there were men, marked out by name, to give their part of the goods to all the males among the priests, and to all who were listed among the Levites. ²⁰ This Hezekiah did through all Judah; he did what was good and right and true before the Lord his God. ²¹ And for everything he undertook, in connection with the work of the house of God and his law and orders, he got directions from God and did it with serious purpose; and things went well for him.

²² Where there are no wise suggestions, purposes come to nothing; but by a number of wise guides they are made certain.

⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, has sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so make your prayer for the rest of the people.

⁸ And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right, ⁹ Still, because of love, in place of an order, I make a request to you, I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

¹ So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care. ² And the ark was in Kiriath-jearim for a long time, as much as twenty years: and all Israel was searching after the Lord with weeping.

¹⁸ And Saul said to Ahijah, Let the ephod come here. For he went before Israel with the ephod at that time.

³⁶ And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, attacking them till the morning, till there is not a man of them living. And they said, Do whatever seems right to you. Then the priest said, Let us come near to God.

¹⁰ And he got directions from the Lord for him, and gave him food, and put in his hand the sword of Goliath the Philistine.

¹⁵ Is this the first time I have got directions from God for him? Far be the thought! let the king make no such statement against his servant or my father's family, for your servant has no knowledge, great or small, of this thing.

² So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.

⁹ And it was clear to David that Saul had evil designs against him, and he said to Abiathar the priest, Come here with the ephod. ¹⁰ Then David said, O Lord, the God of Israel, news has been given to your servant that it is Saul's purpose to come to Keilah and send destruction on the town because of me. ¹¹ And now, is it true, as they have said to me, that Saul is coming? O Lord, the God of Israel, give ear to your servant, and say if these things are so. And the Lord said, He is coming down. ¹² Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.

⁶ We had news of it at Ephrathah: we came to it in the fields of the wood.

²⁰ And Saul's daughter Michal was in love with David: and Saul had word of it and was pleased.

³⁶ And all the people took note of it and were pleased: like everything the king did, it was pleasing to the people.

⁴ And the thing was right in the eyes of the king and all the people.

⁵ And she said, If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom:

⁵ And from Azmon it will go round to the stream of Egypt as far as the sea. ⁶ And for your limit on the west you will have the Great Sea and its edge: this will be your limit on the west. ⁷ And your limit on the north will be the line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor: ⁸ And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:

³ From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim; ⁴ On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites: ⁵ And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath: ⁶ All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do.

²¹ And they sent men to the people living in Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have sent back the ark of the Lord; come and take it up to your country.

²¹ And Solomon was ruler over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the edge of Egypt; men gave him offerings and were his servants all the days of his life.

⁶⁵ So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt, kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.

²¹ And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken away prisoner from his land.

⁶ And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones.

³ And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.

¹⁸ And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

²⁴ Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

²¹ Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.

²² And there, between the two winged ones on the cover of the ark, I will come to you, face to face, and make clear to you all the orders I have to give you for the children of Israel.

²⁷ So they will put my name on the children of Israel, and I will give them my blessing.

⁸⁹ And when Moses went into the Tent of meeting to have talk with him, then the Voice came to his ears from over the cover which was on the ark of witness, from between the two winged ones. And he had talk with him.

⁹ And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah which is Kiriath-jearim:

⁶⁰ Kiriath-baal which is Kiriath-jearim, and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places.

⁴ So the people sent to Shiloh and got the ark of the agreement of the Lord of armies whose resting-place is between the winged ones; and Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were there with the ark of God's agreement.

² And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones. ³ And they put the ark of God on a new cart and took it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were the drivers of the cart. ⁴ And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it. ⁵ And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass. ⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control. ⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God. ⁸ And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day. ⁹ And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me? ¹⁰ So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹¹ And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family.

¹⁶ From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.

¹⁵ And Hezekiah made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

¹ To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm. Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.

¹ The Lord is King; let the peoples be in fear: his seat is on the winged ones; let the earth be moved.

¹⁶ O Lord of armies, the God of Israel, seated between the winged ones, you only are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.

¹⁵ And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

⁷ So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them:

³ And they put the ark of God on a new cart and took it out of the house of Abinadab which was on the hill: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were the drivers of the cart.

² Then David said, The ark of God may not be moved by any but the Levites, for they have been marked out by God to take the ark of God, and to do his work for ever.

¹³ For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.

⁵ After that you will come to Gibeah, the hill of God, where an armed force of the Philistines is stationed: and when you come to the town, you will see a band of prophets coming down from the high place with instruments of music before them; and they will be acting like prophets:

⁵ And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass. ⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control. ⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God. ⁸ And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day. ⁹ And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me? ¹⁰ So David did not let the ark of the Lord come back to him to the town of David: but had it turned away and put into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹¹ And the ark of the Lord was in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months: and the Lord sent a blessing on Obed-edom and all his family. ¹² And they said to King David, The blessing of the Lord is on the family of Obed-edom and on all he has, because of the ark of God. And David went and took the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the town of David with joy. ¹³ And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast. ¹⁴ And David, clothed in a linen ephod, was dancing before the Lord with all his strength. ¹⁵ So David and all the men of Israel took up the ark of the Lord with cries of joy and sounding of horns. ¹⁶ And when the ark of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and jumping before the Lord; and to her mind he seemed foolish. ¹⁷ And they took in the ark of the Lord, and put it in its place inside the tent which David had put up for it: and David made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord. ¹⁸ And after David had made the burned offerings and the peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord of armies. ¹⁹ And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house. ²⁰ Then David came back to give a blessing to his family. And Michal, Saul's daughter, came out to him and said, How full of glory was the king of Israel today, who let himself be seen uncovered by his servant-girls like a foolish person uncovering himself without shame! ²¹ And David said to Michal, I was dancing before the Lord, who put me over your father and all his sons, to make me a ruler over the people of the Lord, over his people Israel: and I will go on playing before the Lord; ²² And I will do even worse than this, and make myself even lower in your eyes: but the servant-girls of whom you were talking will give me honour. ²³ And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.

¹⁵ But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him.

¹⁰ Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve. ¹¹ And David sent for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel and Amminadab, ¹² And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it. ¹³ For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way. ¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. ¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses. ¹⁶ And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy. ¹⁷ So 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, were put in position by the Levites; ¹⁸ And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani 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 door-keepers. ¹⁹ So those who made melody, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were put in position, with brass instruments, sounding loudly; ²⁰ And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth. ²¹ And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song. ²² And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was master of the music: he gave directions about the song, because he was expert. ²³ And Berechiah and Elkanah were door-keepers for the ark. ²⁴ And Shebaniah and Joshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, made music on the horns before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah were door-keepers for the ark.

²⁸ So all Israel took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord, with loud cries and with horns and brass and corded instruments sounding loudly.

⁵ Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;

⁴² And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments sounding loudly, and instruments of music for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun were to be at the door.

⁵ Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.

¹ Further, David and the chiefs of the servants of the holy place made selection of certain of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun for the work of prophets, to make melody with corded instruments and brass; and the number of the men for the work they had to do was: ² Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asharelah, sons of Asaph; under the direction of Asaph, acting as a prophet under the orders of the king; ³ Of Jeduthun: the six sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah and Zeri and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah; under the direction of their father Jeduthun who, acting as a prophet, with corded instruments gave praise and glory to the Lord. ⁴ Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth; ⁵ All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. ⁶ All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.

⁵ God has gone up with a glad cry, the Lord with the sound of the horn.

²⁵ The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments. ²⁶ Give praise to God in the great meeting; even the Lord, you who come from the fountain of Israel. ²⁷ There is little Benjamin ruling them, the chiefs of Judah and their army, the rulers of Zebulun and the rulers of Naphtali.

³ Give him praise with the sound of the horn: give him praise with corded instruments of music. ⁴ Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments. ⁵ Give him praise with the loud brass: give him praise with the high-sounding brass.

⁵ That when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all sorts of instruments, comes to your ears, you are to go down on your faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king has put up: ⁶ And anyone not falling down and worshipping will that same hour be put into a burning and flaming fire. ⁷ So at that time, all the people, when the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, trigon, psaltery, and all sorts of instruments, came to their ears, went down on their faces in worship before the image of gold which Nebuchadnezzar the king had put up.

²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

⁵ Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David; ⁶ And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.

¹ And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. ² And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord. ³ Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

³⁵ Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.

⁶ Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord.

¹⁹ But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

¹⁶ But when he had become strong, his heart was lifted up in pride, causing his destruction; and he did evil against the Lord his God; for he went into the Temple of the Lord for the purpose of burning perfumes on the altar of perfumes. ¹⁷ And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men; ¹⁸ And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God. ¹⁹ Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes. ²⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the priests, looking at him, saw the mark of the leper on his brow, and they sent him out quickly and he himself went out straight away, for the Lord's punishment had come on him.

³⁰ For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead. ³¹ But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us. ³² But if punishment does come, it is sent by the Lord, so that we may be safe when the world is judged.

³² For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.

⁶ And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day.

⁹ And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

⁷ And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.

⁹ And such was David's fear of the Lord that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

⁴ And the Lord said, Have you any right to be angry?

⁹ And the Lord said to Jonah, Have you any right to be angry about the vine? And he said, I have a right to be truly angry.

¹² And the children of Israel said to Moses, Truly, destruction has come on us; an evil fate has overtaken us all. ¹³ Death will overtake everyone who comes near, who comes near the House of the Lord: are we all to come to destruction?

¹⁰ So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of the town made an outcry, saying, They have sent the ark of the God of Israel to us for the destruction of us and of our people. ¹¹ So they sent and got together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its place, so that it may not be the cause of death to us and to our people: for there was a great fear of death through all the town; the hand of God was very hard on them there.

²⁰ And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?

²⁷ But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!

⁵ See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes: ⁶ How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

¹²⁰ My flesh is moved for fear of you; I give honour to your decisions.

⁵ Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.

²⁴ And he who had had the one talent came and said, Lord, I had knowledge that you are a hard man, getting in grain where you have not put seed, and making profits for which you have done no work:

⁸ But Simon, when he saw it, went down at the knees of Jesus and said, Go away from me, O Lord, for I am a sinner. ⁹ For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;

³ But the people of Beeroth had gone in flight to Gittaim, where they have been living to this day.}

¹⁸ And with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Bani 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 door-keepers.

⁴ And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,

⁸ All these were sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brothers, able men and strong for the work; sixty-two sons of Obed-edom.

²⁷ And Laban said, If you will let me say so, do not go away; for I have seen by the signs that the Lord has been good to me because of you.

⁵ And from the time when he made him overseer and gave him control of all his property, the blessing of the Lord was with the Egyptian, because of Joseph; the blessing of the Lord was on all he had, in the house and in the field.

⁴ And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth, ⁵ Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase: ¹⁰ So your store-houses will be full of grain, and your vessels overflowing with new wine.

²² The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

¹⁰ Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it. ¹¹ And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies