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1 Chronicles 15:12-14
New Catholic Bible
1 Chronicles 15:12-14
New Catholic Bible
12 He said to them, “You are the leaders of the ancestral clans of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brethren so that you might bring the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. 13 [a]It is because you did not bring it up the first time that the Lord burst forth against us, for we did not inquire of him about the proper order.”
14 The priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
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- 1 Chronicles 15:13 Even with all his wisdom, David sometimes failed to follow God’s instructions. Although returning the Ark to Israel was the right thing to do, David was careless in following the prescribed method and was unsuccessful until he was obedient to God’s explicit instructions.
