“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
1 Chronicles 13:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 David was afraid of God that day; he said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my care?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And David was afraid of God that day, and he said, How can I bring the ark of God home to me? American Standard Version (1901) And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? Common English Bible David was frightened by God that day. “How will I ever bring God’s chest home to me?” he asked. Catholic Public Domain Version And then he feared God, at that time, saying: "How will I be able to bring in the ark of God to myself?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the ark of God to me? |
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house that I have built!
David was angry because the Lord had burst out against Uzzah, so that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.
So David did not take the ark into his care into the city of David; he took it instead to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.
And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
Then the one who had received the one talent also came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew that you were a harsh man, reaping where you did not sow and gathering where you did not scatter,
Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”