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Uzzah Touches the Ark

1 Chronicles 13:12

In 11 translations

BSB
That day David feared God and asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
KJV
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
WEB
David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
ASV
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
LSV
And David fears God on that day, saying, “How do I bring the Ark of God to me?”
YLT
And David feareth God on that day, saying, 'How do I bring in unto me the ark of God?'
DBY
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God to me?ElohimElohim
DRC
And he feared God at that time, saying: How can I bring in the ark of God to me?
GNV
And Dauid feared God that day, saying, Howe shall I bring in to me the Arke of God?
JPS
And David was afraid of God that day, saying: 'How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?'
LXXE
And David feared God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God in to myself?

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיִּירָ֤א דָוִיד֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֱלֹהִ֔ים בַּיּ֥וֹם הַה֖וּא לֵאמֹ֑ר הֵ֚יךְ אָבִ֣יא אֵלַ֔י אֵ֖ת אֲר֥וֹן הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἐφοβήθη Δαυὶδ τὸν Θεὸν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, λέγων, πῶς εἰσοίσω τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ πρὸς ἐμαυτόν;

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  • Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
  • Job 25:5–6If even the moon does not shine, and the stars are not pure in His sight, how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
  • 1 Samuel 6:20The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who can stand in the presence of the LORD, this holy God? To whom should the ark go up from here?”
  • 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
  • 1 Samuel 5:10–11So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!” Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of…
  • Numbers 17:12–13Then the Israelites declared to Moses, “Look, we are perishing! We are lost; we are all lost! Anyone who comes near the tabernacle of the LORD will die. Are we all going to perish?”
  • Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
  • Luke 5:8–9When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.” For he and his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken,
  • Matthew 25:24Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

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