1 Chronicles 13:13

So David brought not the ark [home] to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

So David {H1732} brought {H5493} not the ark {H727} home to himself to the city {H5892} of David {H1732}, but carried it aside {H5186} into the house {H1004} of Obededom {H5654} the Gittite {H1663}.

So David didn't bring the ark into the City of David; rather, David carried it aside into the house of 'Oved-'Edom the Gitti.

So he did not move the ark with him to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

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.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Chronicles 15:18 (3 votes)

    And with them their brethren of the second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:4 (3 votes)

    Moreover the sons of Obededom [were], Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,

  • 2 Samuel 6:10 (2 votes)

    So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

  • 2 Samuel 6:11 (2 votes)

    And the ark of the LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.

  • 1 Chronicles 26:8 (2 votes)

    All these of the sons of Obededom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, [were] threescore and two of Obededom.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:5 (2 votes)

    Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

  • 2 Samuel 4:3 (2 votes)

    And the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and were sojourners there until this day.)