and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)
1 Chronicles 13:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 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. More versionsKing 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. |
and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.)
And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
and with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obed-edom with joy:
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
And Obed-edom had sons; Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth;
All these were of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men in strength for the service; threescore and two of Obed-edom.