though the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim and live there as outsiders to this day).
1 Chronicles 13:13 - Tree of Life Version So David did not take the Ark with him to the City of David, but left it in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
though the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim and live there as outsiders to this day).
David feared God that day, saying, “How can I ever bring the Ark of God to me?”
and with them their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphalehu and Mikneiahu, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.
So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of the thousands went to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of Adonai out of the house of Obed-edom with rejoicing.
Asaph was the chief and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom and Jehiel. They were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,
Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
All these were descendants of Obed-edom. They and their sons and their kinsmen were capable men with the strength to do the work—62 of Obed-edom.