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.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
2 Samuel 6:12 in context
2 Samuel 6:9–15
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David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, “How could the LORD’s ark come to me?”
10
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.
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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.
14
David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.
15
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.
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