1 Chronicles 13:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So David did not bring the ark home to the City of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite [a Levitical porter born in Gath-rimmon]. [Josh. 21:20, 24; I Chron. 15:24.]

American Standard Version (1901)

So David removed not the ark unto him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Common English Bible

So David didn’t take the chest away with him to David’s City. Instead, he had it put in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And for this reason, he did not bring it to himself, that is, into the City of David. Instead, he turned aside to the house of Obededom, the Gittite.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And therefore he brought it not home to himself, that is, into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gethite.

1 Chronicles 13:13 Cross References

2 Samuel 4:3

(Now the people of Beeroth had fled to Gittaim and are there as resident aliens to this day.)

2 Samuel 6:1

David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

1 Chronicles 13:12

David was afraid of God that day; he said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my care?”

1 Chronicles 15:18

and with them their kindred of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.

1 Chronicles 15:25

So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of the thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.

1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph was the chief, and second to him was Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

1 Chronicles 26:4

Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

1 Chronicles 26:8

All these, sons of Obed-edom with their sons and brothers, were able men qualified for the service; sixty-two of Obed-edom.