1 Chronicles 13

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1 David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.

2 David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let’s send word everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have pasture lands, that they may gather themselves to us.

3 Also, let’s bring the ark of our God back to us again, for we didn’t seek it in the days of Saul.”

4 All the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

5 So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor River of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring God’s ark from Kiriath Jearim.

6 David went up with all Israel to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there God the LORD’s ark that sits above the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

7 They carried God’s ark on a new cart, and brought it out of Abinadab’s house; and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.

9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

10 The LORD’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.

11 David was displeased, because the LORD had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.

12 David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”

13 So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

14 God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.

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2 places named in this chapter.

Where this was written

Jerusalem traditional A temple-centred history composed in the restored Jerusalem.

When this was written

Traditions differ. Each position is shown rather than one asserted as settled.

Traditional: 450 BC–430 BC Ezra
Traditionally the work of Ezra the scribe.
Critical: 400 BC–350 BC The Chronicler
Genealogies reaching several generations past Zerubbabel point later.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (450 BC–350 BC).

1200 BC–400 BC Olmec civilisation Mesoamerica
The earliest major Mesoamerican civilisation, known for colossal stone heads and an early calendar.
1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
550 BC–330 BC The Persian empire founded Persia
Cyrus and his successors ruled from the Aegean to the Indus, the largest empire the world had yet seen.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
499 BC–449 BC Greco-Persian wars Greece
Persia's attempts to subdue the Greek mainland failed at Marathon, Salamis and Plataea.
484 BC–425 BC Herodotus writes his Histories Greece
The first sustained attempt to inquire into the causes of events rather than simply record them.
460 BC–370 BC Hippocratic medicine Greece
Medicine separated from religion, seeking natural causes for disease.
447 BC–432 BC The Parthenon built Greece
Athens' temple to Athena, built at the height of its imperial confidence.

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