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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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)

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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

¹³ 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.