1st Chronicles Chapter 15 verse 13 Holy Bible
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.
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For because you did not take it at the first, the Lord our God sent punishment on us, because we did not get directions from him in the right way.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.
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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.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) For because ye did it not at the first.--The Hebrew seems to mean, for because on the first occasion it was not you (that is, the heads of the Levitical houses)--scil., who carried up the ark, but Uzza and Ahio, sons of Abinadab (2Samuel 6:3). The phrase so rendered only occurs here (l?mabb?rishon?h = "because at the first").Our God made a breach.--Broke out upon us; referring to the sudden death of Uzza (1Chronicles 13:10). (Comp. Exodus 19:22; Exodus 19:24, same phrase.)We sought him not (1Chronicles 13:3) after the due order.--The Ark was carried on a cart, instead of being borne by the sons of Kohath "on their shoulders, with the staves thereon" (1Chronicles 15:15; Numbers 4:15). Even the Kohathites themselves were forbidden to "touch any holy thing," as Uzza had ventured to do. It has been said that the "sanctity of institutions," as opposed to the "sanctity of a people under the government of a righteous God," is the leading idea of the Chronicles. It would be difficult to show how the sanctity of a people is to be secured, and how the government of a righteous God is to be realised, except in and through Divine institutions. As there is a "due order" by which God rules the physical world, so is there a corresponding order whereby His will is fulfilled in the spiritual sphere. There are positive institutions in Christianity as well as in Mosaism; and if we abolish the Divine authority of the one, why not of the other also? . . .