“But, God, will you really live here with us on the earth? All the sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Certainly this house which I have built cannot contain you either.
1 Chronicles 13:12 - Easy To Read Version David was afraid of God that day. David said, “I can’t bring the Box of the Agreement {\cf2\super [145]} here to me!” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, God, will you really live here with us on the earth? All the sky and the highest place in heaven cannot contain you. Certainly this house which I have built cannot contain you either.
God showed his anger at Uzzah. And this made David angry. Since that time until now that place has been called “Perez Uzzah.” {\cf2\super [144]}
So David did not take the Box of the Agreement with him to the City of David. {\cf2\super [146]} He left the Box of the Agreement at Obed Edom’s house. Obed Edom was from the city of Gath.
I became very scared. I said, “Oh, no! I will be destroyed. I am not pure (good) enough to speak to God. And I live among people that are not pure enough to speak to God. {\cf2\super [66]} Yet I have seen the King, the Lord All-Powerful.”
“Then the servant that got one bag of money came to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, I knew that you were a very hard man. You harvest things you did not plant. You gather crops where you did not put any seed.
So the people of Beth Shemesh said, “Where is a priest that can care for this Holy Box? Where should the Box go from here?”