seekeroftruth
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1 Chronicles 15:1 David conferred with each of his officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds. 2 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. 3 Let us bring the ark of our God back to us, for we did not inquire of[a] it(b) during the reign of Saul.” 4 The whole assembly agreed to do this, because it seemed right to all the people.
5 So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. 6 David and all Israel went to Baalah of 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.
7 They moved the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it. 8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 10 The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
11 Then David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.[c]
12 David was afraid of God that day and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?” 13 He did not take the ark to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 14 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed his household and everything he had.
5 So David assembled all Israel, from the Shihor River in Egypt to Lebo Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim. 6 David and all Israel went to Baalah of 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.
7 They moved the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it. 8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.
9 When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 10 The Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.
11 Then David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah.[c]
12 David was afraid of God that day and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?” 13 He did not take the ark to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 14 The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed his household and everything he had.
a. 1 Chronicles 13:3 Or we neglected
b. 1 Chronicles 13:3 Or him
c. 1 Chronicles 13:11 Perez Uzzah means outbreak against Uzzah.
Poor Uzzah.... Poor David.... how horrible David must have felt. He hired Uzzah to do a job. Uzzah trusted David, as king, to make sure he got back home safe that day.... but there was an accident... Uzzah died.... David got angry.
When I was about 13, I went to stay with my aunt for a couple of weeks. My uncle was working in the kitchen, doing something for my aunt. He might have just been getting down a pot off of a high shelf. My aunt was a tad short.... lol. Anyway, a cabinet door was open and he hit his head.... bad.... he reached up and yanked that cabinet door off the cabinet and slung it across the room. Scared the poop out of me.... At 13 I hadn't seen such a display of instant anger before. My aunt said "better a cabinet door than one of you kids" with a smile. She understood. My uncle was hurt [had a little blood actually] and he acted out. David was hurt and he acted out.
This is from bible-studys.org.
“The Ark of our God”: Not only had the Ark been stolen and profaned by the Philistines (1 Sam. Chapters 5 - 6), but when it was returned, Saul neglected to seek God’s instruction for it. Scripture records only one occasion when Saul sought God’s Ark after its return (compare 1 Sam. 14:18).
The chronicler, intent on showing David’s longing to honor God, tells the story of the transport of “the Ark of … God” before he mentions the building projects that David completed, even though those projects were completed before the Ark’s journey form Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem (2 Sam. Chapters 5 and 6). For more about the Ark of the Covenant, the most sacred object of the Hebrew faith (see Exodus 25:10-22).
David wants to reunite them around the Ark of the Covenant which symbolized the presence of God. The Ark had even been taken, and carried off by the heathens. It was back in the land again, but no central place of worship existed. The people had really fallen away from their God. No longer had they looked to God for the answers to their problems.
The chronicler, intent on showing David’s longing to honor God, tells the story of the transport of “the Ark of … God” before he mentions the building projects that David completed, even though those projects were completed before the Ark’s journey form Kirjath-jearim to Jerusalem (2 Sam. Chapters 5 and 6). For more about the Ark of the Covenant, the most sacred object of the Hebrew faith (see Exodus 25:10-22).
David wants to reunite them around the Ark of the Covenant which symbolized the presence of God. The Ark had even been taken, and carried off by the heathens. It was back in the land again, but no central place of worship existed. The people had really fallen away from their God. No longer had they looked to God for the answers to their problems.
They had wandered so far away from the LORD that they did not know how the Ark was to be carried. Uzza and Ahio were sons of Abinadab who had been charged with the keeping of the Ark. The new cart was used to show respect for the Ark, but that was not how it was to be carried. There were to be staves run through loops on the outside of the Ark. The priests were to carry the Ark with these poles (staves). They were not to touch the Ark at any time.
"The threshing floor of Chidon": For Chidon, the parallel place has Nachon; possibly these are two names of the same place, or one form is a corruption of the ether; but there is nothing to determine for us which. Owing to the meaning of Nachon being "prepared," the version of Aquila is "to the prepared threshing floor. The threshing floor was a circular plot of hard ground, from fifty to one hundred feet in diameter, on which the oxen trampled out the grain. Threshing floors evidently often became landmarks, and helped to designate places (Gen. 50:10; 2 Sam. 24:16). The oxen stumbled. In the parallel place the Authorized Version renders "shook it." Its elementary meanings are "to strike" and "to throw down." Perhaps the meaning is near the Vulgate rendering, stubborn, and equivalent to the rendering, became increasingly difficult to control.
It seemed the stumbling of one of the oxen shook the Ark that it might fall. We must remember, God was displeased with them pulling the Ark with the oxen in the first place. The threshing floor was a place where people gathered, and became landmarks for the people. Uzza was not the high priest, and even if he had been, he would not be allowed to touch the Ark.
"The threshing floor of Chidon": For Chidon, the parallel place has Nachon; possibly these are two names of the same place, or one form is a corruption of the ether; but there is nothing to determine for us which. Owing to the meaning of Nachon being "prepared," the version of Aquila is "to the prepared threshing floor. The threshing floor was a circular plot of hard ground, from fifty to one hundred feet in diameter, on which the oxen trampled out the grain. Threshing floors evidently often became landmarks, and helped to designate places (Gen. 50:10; 2 Sam. 24:16). The oxen stumbled. In the parallel place the Authorized Version renders "shook it." Its elementary meanings are "to strike" and "to throw down." Perhaps the meaning is near the Vulgate rendering, stubborn, and equivalent to the rendering, became increasingly difficult to control.
It seemed the stumbling of one of the oxen shook the Ark that it might fall. We must remember, God was displeased with them pulling the Ark with the oxen in the first place. The threshing floor was a place where people gathered, and became landmarks for the people. Uzza was not the high priest, and even if he had been, he would not be allowed to touch the Ark.
Displeased is probably speaking of David's grief over the death of Uzza for trying to do something good. Had David fully understood the law of God, they would have gone about moving the Ark differently. He, like many of the other Israelites, had not learned God's ways.
Obed-edom was a Levite of the family of the Korhites. The Ark remained there three months and Obed-edom was blessed. At least David knew enough to take it to a Levite, who should know how to handle the Ark.
I have theorized that there must be some kind of energy inside the Ark. I know the tablets that God engraved for Moses [the second set.... cause Moses broke the first set when he saw the golden calf that jumped out of the cauldron]. I figure the stone the tablets were inscribed on by God... are radioactive..... it's just a theory.... but that sudden death.... that's telling me it might be something like radioactive but it bigger... badder... and much more deadly.... right?
This is a touchy subject for an old gray haired woman with an online Bible and some online commentary. If I write an opinion.... and it's dead wrong... and someone else reads it and believes it.... it's on me. I would be the one, although in ignorance, who made an error causing a hand to reach out and .... I try to get it right... I do pray about it.
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