1 Chronicles 15:14
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
1 Chronicles 15:14 in other translations
| BSB | So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
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| WEB | So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel. |
| ASV | So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel. |
| YLT | And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel; |
| DARBY | So the priests and the Levites hallowed themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel. |
| BBE | So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. |
| Webster | So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel. |
What does 1 Chronicles 15:14 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Chronicles 15:1-24
Wise and good men may be guilty of oversights, which they will correct, as soon as they are aware of them. David does not try to justify what had been done amiss, nor to lay the blame on others; but he owns himself guilty, with others, of not seeking God in due order
1 Chronicles 15:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for 1 Chronicles 15:14
- 2 Chronicles 29:34
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
- Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
- 2 Chronicles 29:15
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the Lord, to cleanse the house of the Lord.
- Joel 2:16-17
Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
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Context
- 1 Chronicles 15:13
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.
- 1 Chronicles 15:14
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 15:15
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 15:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así los sacerdotes y los Levitas se santificaron para traer el arca de Jehová Dios de Israel. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les sacrificateurs et les Lévites se sanctifièrent pour faire monter l’arche de l’ Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Da heiligten sich die Priester und die Leviten, um die Lade Jehovas, des Gottes Israels, hinaufzubringen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sanctificati sunt ergo sacerdotes et Levitæ ut portarent arcam Domini Dei Israël. |