Acts 7:45

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Acts 7:43–47 · Berean Standard Bible

43 You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’

44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of the Testimony with them in the wilderness. It was constructed exactly as God had directed Moses, according to the pattern he had seen.

45 And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,

46 who found favor in the sight of God and asked to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

47 But it was Solomon who built the house for Him.

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Joshua 3:11

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.

Joshua 3:12

Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

Joshua 3:13

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

Joshua 3:14

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

Joshua 18:1

Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,

Judges 18:31

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

1 Samuel 4:4

So the people sent men to Shiloh, and they brought back the ark of the covenant of the LORD of Hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

1 Kings 8:4

and they brought up the ark of the LORD and the Tent of Meeting with all its sacred furnishings. So the priests and Levites carried them up.

1 Chronicles 16:39

And David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the LORD at the high place in Gibeon

1 Chronicles 21:29

For the tabernacle of the LORD that Moses had made in the wilderness and the altar of burnt offering were presently at the high place in Gibeon,

Joshua 3:6

And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

Joshua 3:7

Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Hebrews 4:8

For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day.

Acts 13:19

And having vanquished seven nations in Canaan, He gave their land to His people as an inheritance.

Nehemiah 9:24

So their descendants went in and possessed the land; You subdued before them the Canaanites dwelling in the land. You delivered into their hands the kings and peoples of the land, to do with them as they wished.

Psalms 44:2

With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.

Psalms 78:55

He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

2 Samuel 6:1

David again assembled the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand in all.

2 Samuel 6:2

And he and all his troops set out for Baale of Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name— the name of the LORD of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim that are on it.

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, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart,

2 Samuel 6:4

bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

2 Samuel 6:5

David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

2 Samuel 6:6

When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

2 Samuel 6:7

And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:8

Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah; so he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.

2 Samuel 6:9

That day David feared the LORD and asked, “How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?”

2 Samuel 6:10

So he was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

2 Samuel 6:11

Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and all his household.

2 Samuel 6:12

Now it was reported to King David, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with rejoicing.

2 Samuel 6:13

When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

2 Samuel 6:14

And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

2 Samuel 6:15

while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram’s horn.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:17

So they brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

2 Samuel 6:18

When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.

2 Samuel 6:19

Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.

2 Samuel 6:20

As soon as David returned home to bless his own household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today!” she said. “He has uncovered himself today in the sight of the maidservants of his subjects, like a vulgar person would do.”

2 Samuel 6:21

But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,

2 Samuel 6:22

and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

2 Samuel 6:23

And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

1 Chronicles 15:1

David constructed buildings for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

1 Chronicles 15:2

Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the LORD has chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister before Him forever.”

1 Chronicles 15:3

And David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15:4

Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

1 Chronicles 15:5

From the Kohathites, Uriel the chief and 120 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 15:6

from the Merarites, Asaiah the chief and 220 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 15:7

from the Gershomites, Joel the chief and 130 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 15:8

from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the chief and 200 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 15:9

from the Hebronites, Eliel the chief and 80 of his relatives;

1 Chronicles 15:10

and from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the chief and 112 of his relatives.

1 Chronicles 15:11

David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

1 Chronicles 15:12

And he said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 15:13

It was because you Levites were not with us the first time that the LORD our God burst forth in anger against us. For we did not consult Him about the proper order.”

1 Chronicles 15:14

So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 15:15

And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded in accordance with the word of the LORD.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 15:17

So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; from their brothers the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah;