When the men who carried the Lord’s Holy Box had walked six steps, they stopped and David sacrificed a bull and a fat calf.
Numbers 7:9 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version Moses did not give any oxen or wagons to the men in Kohath’s group, because their job was to carry the holy things on their shoulders. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were assigned the care of the sanctuary and the holy things which had to be carried on their shoulders. American Standard Version (1901) But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none, because the service of the sanctuary belonged unto them; they bare it upon their shoulders. Common English Bible But to the Kohathites he gave nothing because their duty concerned the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulders. Catholic Public Domain Version But to the sons of Kohath he gave no wagons or oxen, because they serve in the Sanctuary and they carry their burdens on their shoulders. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders. |
When the men who carried the Lord’s Holy Box had walked six steps, they stopped and David sacrificed a bull and a fat calf.
David’s men brought the Holy Box out of Abinadab’s house on the hill. Then they put God’s Holy Box on a new wagon. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were driving the new wagon.
When David’s men came to the threshing floor of Nacon, the oxen stumbled, and God’s Holy Box began to fall off the wagon. Uzzah caught the Holy Box.
When all the elders of Israel arrived, the priests and Levites carried the Holy Box of the Lord up to the Temple. They also carried the Meeting Tent and all the holy things that were in it up to the Temple.
The first time we tried to bring it, we failed to ask the Lord about the right way to move it. And he punished us because you Levites did not carry it.”
David told all the Israelites to meet together at Jerusalem to see the Lord’s Holy Box carried to the place he had made for it.
So the Levites don’t need to carry the Holy Tent or any of the things used in its services anymore.”
Their job was to take care of the Holy Box, the table, the lampstand, the altars, and the dishes of the Holy Place. They also cared for the curtain and all the things that were used with the curtain.