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Ask a QuestionThen David said, "No one may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister before Him forever."
Then the men of Kirjath Jearim came and took the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.
The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook.
When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
And they set the ark of the LORD on the cart, and the chest with the gold rats and the images of their tumors.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
And he appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to commemorate, to thank, and to praise the LORD God of Israel:
Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth;
the Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite;
So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjath Jearim, saying, "The Philistines have brought back the ark of the LORD; come down and take it up with you."
So it was that the ark remained in Kirjath Jearim a long time; it was there twenty years. And all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.
And when they came to Nachon's threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.
David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?"
So David would not move the ark of the LORD with him into the City of David; but David took it aside into the house of ObedE'dom the Gittite.
And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor in Egypt to as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath Jearim.
And when they came to Chidon's threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.
So David would not move the ark with him into the City of David, but took it aside into the house of ObedE'dom the Gittite.