OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

2 Samuel 6:10

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So David would not move the LORD’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

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2 Samuel 6:10 in context

2 Samuel 6:7–13

7

The LORD’s anger burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.

8

David was displeased because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah to this day.

9

David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, “How could the LORD’s ark come to me?”

10
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So David would not move the LORD’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.

11

The LORD’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.

12

King David was told, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.”

So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

13

When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

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