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1 Chronicles 13:12
12So David now became afraid of God. He said, ‘God's Covenant Box is too holy to take with me.’
1 Chronicles 13:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
- New International Version (NIV)David was afraid of God that day and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
- English Standard Version (ESV)And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God home to me?"
- New King James Version (NKJV)David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring the ark of God to me?”
Context of 1 Chronicles 13:12
10The Lord was very angry with Uzzah because he had touched the Covenant Box. He knocked Uzzah down to the ground. Uzzah died there, beside God's Covenant Box. 11David was angry because the Lord had punished Uzzah. So he called that place ‘Perez Uzzah’. That is still its name today. So David now became afraid of God. He said, ‘God's Covenant Box is too holy to take with me.’ 13So he did not take the Covenant Box to the City of David to be with him there. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom, who came from Gath. 14God's Covenant Box stayed in the home of Obed-Edom's family for three months. During that time, the Lord blessed Obed-Edom's family and everything that he had.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 131 Chronicles 13:12 word by word
וַיִּירָ֤א דָוִיד֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵ֚יךְ אָבִ֣יא אֵלַ֔י אֵ֖ת אֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 13:12
- Numbers 17:12The Israelites said to Moses, ‘We will all die!
- 1 Samuel 5:10So then they took God's Covenant Box to Ekron. When God's Covenant Box arrived in Ekron, the people screamed. They said, ‘They have brought the Covenant Box of Israel's God here! They want to kill us all!’
- 1 Samuel 6:20The people of Beth Shemesh said, ‘The Lord is a holy God! Nobody can go near to him! We must send his Covenant Box away from us. But who can ever take care of it?’
- Psalms 119:120I respect your great strength, so that my body shakes with fear. I am afraid of the laws by which you judge people.
- Isaiah 6:5Then I said, ‘It is bad for me! My life is at an end! I have lips that are unclean. I live among people with lips that are unclean. With my own eyes I have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.’
- Luke 5:8When Simon saw all the fish, he went down on his knees in front of Jesus. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘I am a bad man. So please go away from me.’
- 1 Kings 8:27But surely God, you do not live on the earth! The whole sky, or even heaven itself, is too small to contain you! So how can you live in this temple that I have built?
- Job 25:5When God looks at the moon and the stars, they do not seem to be pure and bright.
- Matthew 25:24The servant who had received 1,000 gold coins then came to his master. The servant said, “Master, I know what you are like. You tell people what they should do all the time. You take food from fields where you did not put any seed in the ground. You get fruit from trees that you did not plant.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 13:12
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-14Verses 6-14 Let the sin of Uzza warn all to take heed of presumption, rashness, and irreverence, in dealing with holy things; and let none think that a good design will justify a bad action. Let the punishment of Uzza teach us not to dare to trifle with God in our approaches to him; yet let us, through Christ, come boldly to the throne of grace. If the gospel be to some a savour of death unto death, as the ark was to Uzza, yet let us receive it in the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12David's reaction to Uzzah's death might show he felt unfit to move the ark to Jerusalem.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 6-146-14. David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah--(See on 2Sa 6:1-11). whose name is called on it--rather, "who is worshipped there" (2Sa 6:2).Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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