1 Chronicles 15:14

Webster's Bible (1833)

So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

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  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, "'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, And before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
  • 2 Chr 29:15 : 15 They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.
  • 2 Chr 29:34 : 34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
  • Joel 2:16-17 : 16 Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who suck the breasts. Let the bridegroom go forth from his room, And the bride out of her chamber. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, And let them say, "Spare your people, Yahweh, And don't give your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

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  • 1 Chr 15:11-13
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    87%

    11David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

    12and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

    13For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.

  • 1 Chr 15:15
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    15The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
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    3All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

    4They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

  • 2 Chr 5:4-5
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    4All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

    5and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.

  • 1 Sam 7:1
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    1The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 15:1-4
    4 verses
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    1[David] made him houses in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

    2Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them has Yahweh chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him forever.

    3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place, which he had prepared for it.

    4David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:

  • 2 Chr 29:15-16
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    15They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh.

    16The priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of Yahweh into the court of the house of Yahweh. The Levites took it, to carry it out abroad to the brook Kidron.

  • 2 Chr 5:11
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    11It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

  • 1 Chr 15:25-26
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    25So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of the house of Obed-edom with joy.

    26It happened, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

  • 2 Chr 29:5
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    5and said to them, Hear me, you Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

  • 2 Chr 29:34
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    34But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.

  • 1 Chr 16:4
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    4He appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahweh, and to celebrate and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

  • 1 Chr 16:1
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    1They brought in the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings before God.

  • Josh 3:3
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    3and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.

  • 2 Chr 35:3
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    3He said to the Levites who taught all Israel, who were holy to Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; there shall no more be a burden on your shoulders: now serve Yahweh your God, and his people Israel.

  • 2 Sam 15:29
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    29Zadok therefore and Abiathar carried the ark of God again to Jerusalem: and they abode there.

  • 1 Chr 15:28
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    28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.

  • 2 Chr 5:7
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    7The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

  • 2 Chr 35:14
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    14Afterward they prepared for themselves, and for the priests, because the priests the sons of Aaron [were busied] in offering the burnt offerings and the fat until night: therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

  • 1 Sam 6:15
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    15The Levites took down the ark of Yahweh, and the coffer that was with it, in which the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day to Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
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    19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.

  • 1 Chr 13:6-7
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    6David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kiriath Jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God Yahweh that sits [above] the cherubim, that is called by the Name.

    7They carried the ark of God on a new cart, [and brought it] out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

  • Josh 3:14
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    14It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;

  • 2 Chr 30:15
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    15Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth [day] of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 1:4
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    4But David had brought the ark of God up from Kiriath Jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.

  • 2 Sam 6:15
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    15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

  • Josh 6:12
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    12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.

  • Num 8:15
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    15"After that, the Levites shall go in to do the service of the Tent of Meeting: and you shall cleanse them, and offer them as a wave offering.

  • Josh 3:6
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    6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

  • 1 Kgs 8:6
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    6The priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

  • Exod 19:22
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    22Let the priests also, who come near to Yahweh, sanctify themselves, lest Yahweh break forth on them."

  • 2 Chr 30:17
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    17For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites had the charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh.

  • 2 Sam 6:2
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    2David arose, and went with all the people who were with him, from Baale Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, even the name of Yahweh of Hosts who sits [above] the cherubim.

  • Num 8:6
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    6"Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.

  • 2 Chr 6:41
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    41Now therefore arise, Yahweh God, into your resting-place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, Yahweh God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness.

  • 1 Chr 13:3
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    3and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we didn't seek it in the days of Saul.

  • 1 Sam 6:21
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    21They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.

  • Ezra 8:30
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    30So the priests and the Levites received the weight of the silver and the gold, and the vessels, to bring them to Jerusalem to the house of our God.

  • 2 Sam 6:13
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    13It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

  • 1 Sam 14:18
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    18Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of God was [there] at that time with the children of Israel.