Quotes About Sacred

the Philistines summoned the priests and diviners, saying, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us how to send it back to its place.”

But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

The 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?”

So they sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up with you.”

Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saulís head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”

When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and said, “Surely here before the LORD is His anointed.”

David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on the day it was taken away.

Then the king sent messengers to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and his fatherís whole family, who were priests at Nob. And all of them came to the king.

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,

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”

So Zadok and Abiathar returned the ark of God to Jerusalem and stayed there.

and Ira the Jairite was Davidís priest.

So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and bowed facedown before the king.

So Solomon banished Abiathar from the priesthood of the LORD and thus fulfilled the word that the LORD had spoken at Shiloh against the house of Eli.

And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.

The house that King Solomon built for the LORD was sixty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.