1 Kings 8:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests carried the ark.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

Common English Bible

³ When all of Israel’s elders had arrived, the priests picked up the chest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And all the elders of Israel arrived, and the priests took up the ark.

1 Kings 8:3 Cross References

Joshua 3:6

To the priests Joshua said, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on in front of the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went in front of the people.

Deuteronomy 31:9

Then Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Joshua 3:3

and commanded the people, “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place. Follow it,

Numbers 4:15

When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furnishings of the sanctuary, as the camp sets out, after that the Kohathites shall come to carry these, but they must not touch the holy things, or they will die. These are the things of the tent of meeting that the Kohathites are to carry.

1 Chronicles 15:2

Then David commanded that no one but the Levites were to carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.

Joshua 6:6

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Joshua 4:9

(Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood, and they are there to this day.)

Numbers 7:9

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because they were charged with the care of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders.

1 Kings 8:6

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, in the inner sanctuary of the house, the most holy place, underneath the wings of the cherubim.

2 Samuel 6:12

It was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing,