Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
1 Chronicles 13:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.
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Quick Meaning
Gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark.
Read It With
- 1 Chronicles 13:5–13:8
Gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark. Read 1 Chronicles 13:5 within 13:5–13:8. The complete unit records: A geographically broad assembly retrieves the ark from Kiriath-jearim, places it on a cart, and celebrates with instruments.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The joyful procession creates the immediate setting for Uzza's death and the later correction of carrying practice. In this exact position, the line beginning “So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering…” gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark.
Follow the Context
- A geographically broad assembly retrieves the ark from Kiriath-jearim, places it on a cart, and celebrates with instruments.
- The joyful procession creates the immediate setting for Uzza's death and the later correction of carrying practice.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering…”
In plain language: Gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark.
The line beginning “So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering…” gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark.
Why it matters: The wording carries a material literary, historical, temple, royal-power, violence, ethnic, illness, gender, exile, reception, or misuse boundary.
How certain? probableWhat This Verse Is Not Saying
Energy, music, scale, and sincerity do not guarantee safe or faithful practice, and the new cart does not make the method authorized.
What Remains True
Gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark. This concrete detail supports a bounded truth: Worship requires ordered, truthful, skilled, and accountable service, while sacred office, beauty, or scale never determines a person's worth.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because this verse gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark, keep it inside 13:5–13:8, compare its Samuel-Kings relationship honestly, protect affected people from coercion or stigma, and apply only the accountable principle the complete unit supports.
Teach It Back
Explain why 1 Chronicles 13:5 gathers all Israel across an idealized geographic span for the ark. Use 13:5–13:8, paraphrase “So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering…,” state one source or reconstruction limit, identify one person or group power can obscure, and reject one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read 1 Chronicles 13:5–13:8 — All Israel moves the ark with music on a new cartSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
1 Chronicles 13:5 remains within this thought-unit limit: Chronicles expands the all-Israel and musical framing of 2 Samuel 6, while place names and divine-title syntax have textual alternatives.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Exact location: 1 Chronicles 13:5–13:8, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 1 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/1Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 13:5–13:8
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NET Bible Full Notes: 1 Chronicles
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press; STEP Bible presentation, 2019 edition; current web presentation
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Exact location: STEP Bible NET2full, 1 Chronicles 13:5–13:8, verse-attached translation and translator notes
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