nd of Nephtali, a thousand leaders: and with them seven and
thirty thousand, furnished with shield and spear.
12:35. Of Dan also twenty-eight thousand six hundred prepared for
battle.
12:36. And of Aser forty thousand going forth to fight, and challenging
in battle.
12:37. And on the other side of the Jordan of the sons of Ruben, and of
Gad, and of the half of the tribe of Manasses a hundred and twenty
thousand, furnished with arms for war.
12:38. All these men of war well appointed to fight, came with a perfect
heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel: and all the rest
also of Israel, were of one heart to make David king.
12:39. And they were there with David three days eating and drinking:
for their brethren had prepared for them.
12:40. Moreover they that were near them even as far as Issachar, and
Zabulon, and Nephtali, brought loaves on asses, and on camels, and on
mules, and on oxen, to eat: meal, figs, raisins, wine, oil, and oxen,
and sheep in abundance, for there was joy in Israel.
1 Paralipomenon Chapter 13
The ark is brought from Cariathiarim. Oza for touching it is struck
dead.
13:1. David consulted with the captains of thousands, and of hundreds,
and with all the commanders.
13:2. And he said to all the assembly of Israel: If it please you; and
if the words which I speak come from the Lord our God, let us send to
the rest of our brethren into all the countries of Israel, and to the
priests, and the Levites, that dwell in the suburbs of the cities, to
gather themselves to us,
13:3. And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought it
not in the days of Saul.
13:4. And all the multitude answered that it should be so: for the word
pleased all the people.
13:5. So David assembled all Israel from Sihor of Egypt, even to the
entering into Emath, to bring the ark of God from Cariathiarim.
13:6. And David went up with all the men of Israel to the hill of
Cariathiarim which is in Juda, to bring thence the ark of the Lord God
sitting upon the cherubims, where his name is called upon.
13:7. And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart out of the house
of Abinadab. And Oza and his brother drove the cart.
13:8. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might
with hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and
cymbals, and trumpets,
13:9. And when they came to the floor of Chidon, Oza put forth his hand,
to hold up the ark:
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