Treasury of Scripture
carried the ark [heb] made the ark to ride. At
Numbers 3:10 And you shall appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest's office...
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Numbers 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses...
, a particular caution is given that strangers must not touch, or even pry into, the most holy things connected with the tabernacle, lest the offender die. In giving the law, also, even a beast which touched Sinai's mount was, by the Almighty's fiat, to be stoned or thrust through with a dart. And again we read, (nu
Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary...
) after special orders to Aaron and his sons about covering the sanctuary and all the vessels previously to a removal, that the Kohathites, who were to carry them, `shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die.' These were positive commands. May the sin of Uzza in touching the ark, warn Christians to take heed of rashness and irreverence in dealing about holy things.
1 Chronicles 13:9 And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
in a new cart
1 Chronicles 15:2,13 Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them has the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God...
Numbers 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary...
1 Samuel 6:7 Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milk cows, on which there has come no yoke, and tie the cows to the cart...
2 Samuel 6:3 And they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio...
out of the house
1 Samuel 7:1,2 And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark of the LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill...
