1 Chronicles 15:13
◄  1 Chronicles 15:13  ►
New International Version (©2011)
It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the LORD our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Because you Levites did not carry the Ark the first time, the anger of the LORD our God burst out against us. We failed to ask God how to move it properly."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Because you did not carry it at the first, the LORD our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
For the LORD our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn't inquire of Him about the proper procedures."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Because you didn't carry it from the very first, the LORD our God attacked us, since we didn't care for it appropriately."

NET Bible (©2006)
The first time you did not carry it; that is why the LORD God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Because you weren't there the first time, the LORD our God struck us. We hadn't dedicated our lives to serving him in the way [he] designated."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
For because you did it not at the first, the LORD our God broke forth upon us, for we sought him not about the proper order.

American King James Version
For because you did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach on us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

American Standard Version
For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law.

Darby Bible Translation
For because ye did it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

English Revised Version
For because ye bare it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

Webster's Bible Translation
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

World English Bible
For because you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance."

Young's Literal Translation
because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:1-24 Wise and good men may be guilty of oversights, which they will correct, as soon as they are aware of them. David does not try to justify what had been done amiss, nor to lay the blame on others; but he owns himself guilty, with others, of not seeking God in due order

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 13. - This verse purports to say that the Levites had been deficient in their duty in the double sense of not having themselves exclusively undertaken the removal of the ark, and not having executed that removal after the due order.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For because ye did it not at the first,.... Did not sanctify themselves, as the supplement in our version directs; but rather the sense is, ye were not there at first, when the ark was brought from Kirjathjearim as far as the house of Obededom, as they should have been; they were not then employed, as was their business, and therefore

the Lord our God made a breach upon us; by smiting Uzzah with death, who was no Levite, and touched the ark, which is called his "error", and for which God smote him, 2 Samuel 6:7 on which place Lud. Capellus observes, the word "shal", we there render "error", signifies a "disease" in the Arabic language, and might formerly design a sudden one with the Hebrew; as an apoplexy; and so the sense be, that God smote Uzzah with an apoplexy, of which he suddenly died:

for that we sought him not after the due order; but, instead of employing the Levites to carry the ark on their shoulders, it was put upon a cart.

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Preparations to Move the Ark to Jerusalem
…12And said to them, You are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it. 13For because you did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach on us, for that we sought him not after the due order. 14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

2 Samuel 6:3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart
1 Chronicles 13:7 They moved the ark of God from Abinadab's house on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding it.
1 Chronicles 13:10 The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.