Yahweh’s chest stayed at the house of Obed Edom the Gittite for three months. Yahweh blessed Obed Edom and his entire household, and it was told King David, ‘Yahweh has blessed the household of Obed Edom and all that belongs to him on account of God’s chest’, so David went and brought up God’s chest from Obed Edom’s house to David’s Town with rejoicing.
When the people carrying Yahweh’s chest had taken six steps he sacrificed a bull and a fatling, with David whirling before Yahweh with all his vigour, and David wrapped round in a linen chasuble, and David and all the household of Yisra’el bringing up Yahweh’s chest with a shout and with the sound of a horn.
Yahweh’s chest was coming into David’s Town as Mikal, Sha’ul’s daughter, was looking out through the window. She saw King David jumping and whirling before Yahweh, and she despised him inside.
They brought in Yahweh’s chest and put it in its place inside the tent that David had spread for it. David offered up burnt offerings and well-being sacrifices before Yahweh. David finished offering up the burnt offering and the well-being sacrifices, blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies, and shared out to the entire people, to the entire Yisra’elite horde, both men and women, to each individual, a round of bread, a date block and a raisin block.
Goldingay, John. The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.
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