1 Chronicles 13

1 And Dauid counceled with the Capitaines of thousandes and hundredes, & with all the Lordes, 2 and sayde vnto all the congregacyon of Israel: If it seme you good & also to be of the Lord ouer God? Let vs take & sende vnto 'fee remnaunt of oure brethren thorow out all the land of Israel, & to the preastes and Leuites wyth them, in theyr cyties and suburbes, and geather them to geather to vs. 3 And lett vs brynge agayne the Arcke of the Lorde to vs: for we regarded yt not in the dayes of Saul. 4 And all the congregacion was content so to do, for the thynge semed good in the eyes of all the people. 5 And Dauid geathered all Israel to geather from Sihor in Egypt vnto Hemath, to bring the Arcke of the Lorde from Kariath Iarim. 6 And Dauid went vp & all Israel to Baalah, and so to Kariath Iarim that is in Iuda, to fet thence the Arcke of the God & Lorde that sytteth on the Cherubes. Where hys name is called on. 7 And they caryed the Arcke of God in a newe carte out of the house of Aminadab. And Oza & his brother draue 'fee carte. 8 And Dauid & all Israel played before God with all theyr myght, with syngyng, harpes, psalteries, tymbrelles and trompettes. 9 And when they came on the thressynge flowre of Chidon, Oza put forth his hande to holde the arcke, for the oxen stombled. 10 And the Lorde was wroth with Oza & smote hym, because he put hys hande to the Arcke. And there he dyed before God. 11 And Dauid was displeased, because the Lorde had rent a rent in Oza and called the sayde place Perez Oza vnto this daye. 12 And Dauid was so afrayed of God that daye, that he sayde, how shall I brynge the Arcke of God whome to me. 13 And so Dauid brought not 'fee Arcke home to him to the cytie of Dauid: But turned it in to the house of Obed Edom o Gethite. 14 And 'fee Arcke of God was wyth Obed Edom in his house, thre monethes. And the Lorde blessed the house of Obed Edom & all that he had.