1 Chronicles 13:7 Meaning and Explanation
“And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does 1 Chronicles 13:7 Mean?
The procession brings the ark out of the house of Abinadab, where it had been kept, and places it on a new cart. Uzza and Ahio, of that household, guide the cart forward as the journey toward Jerusalem begins.
A new cart seems a fitting honor, yet the law had appointed that the ark be carried on the shoulders of the Levites by its poles, never set on a wagon. Good zeal had quietly adopted a method God had not given. The verse plants a seed of warning: sincerity is precious, and it does not replace doing the LORD's will in the LORD's way.
1 Chronicles 13:7 in the Original Language
agalah (עֲגָלָה), 'cart' -- a wheeled wagon, not the appointed way to bear the ark.
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What does 1 Chronicles 13:7 mean?
The ark is loaded onto a new cart driven by Uzza and Ahio.