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Plans
to Move the Ark to Jerusalem |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:1 |
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Now David built houses for himself in the city
of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:2 |
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Then David said, "No one is to carry the ark
of God but the Levites; for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of God and to
minister to Him forever." |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:3 |
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And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem
to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place which he had prepared for it. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:4 |
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David gathered together the sons of Aaron and
the Levites: |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:5 |
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of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and
120 of his relatives; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:6 |
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of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and
220 of his relatives; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:7 |
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of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and
130 of his relatives; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:8 |
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of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief,
and 200 of his relatives; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:9 |
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of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and
80 of his relatives; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:10 |
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of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief,
and 112 of his relatives. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:11 |
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Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar the
priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab, |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:12 |
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and said to them, "You are the heads of the
fathers' households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives,
that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place that I have
prepared for it. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:13 |
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Because you did not carry it at the first, the
LORD our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the
ordinance." |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:14 |
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So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves
to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:15 |
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The sons of the Levites carried the ark of God
on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to
the word of the LORD. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:16 |
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Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites
to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres,
loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:17 |
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So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel,
and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari
their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah, |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:18 |
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and with them their relatives of the second
rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah,
Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:19 |
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So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were
appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:20 |
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and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni,
Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah, with harps tuned to alamoth; |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:21 |
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and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom,
Jeiel and Azaziah, to lead with lyres tuned to the sheminith. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:22 |
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Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was in charge
of the singing; he gave instruction in singing because he was skillful. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:23 |
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Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the
ark. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:24 |
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Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah,
Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom
and Jehiah also were gatekeepers for the ark. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:25 |
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So it was David, with the elders of Israel and
the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the
LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:26 |
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Because God was helping the Levites who were
carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and
seven rams. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:27 |
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Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen
with all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah
the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore an ephod of linen. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:28 |
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Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant
of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding
cymbals, with harps and lyres. |
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| 1 Chronicles 15:29 |
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It happened when the ark of the covenant of
the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out
of the window and saw King David leaping and celebrating; and she despised him
in her heart. |
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