// ICHABOD – “The
1 Samuel 5:3
When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.
1 Samuel 5:4
But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, Dagon’s head and both of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.
1 Samuel 5:6
The Lord’s hand was heavy on the people of Ashdod. He terrified the people of Ashdod and its territory and afflicted them with tumors.
1 Samuel 5:11-12
11 The Ekronites called all the Philistine rulers together. They said, “Send the ark of Israel’s God away. Let it return to its place so it won’t kill us and our people!” For the fear of death pervaded the city; God’s hand was oppressing them. 12 Those who did not die were afflicted with tumors, and the outcry of the city went up to heaven.
1 Samuel 5:12 (WYCLIFFE)
And the men who did not die were smitten in the privy parts of their buttocks, and the yelling of each city went up into heaven.
// Don’t mess with the
Psalm 46:10
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
1 Samuel 6:13-14
13 The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed to see it. 14 The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people of the city chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.
1 Samuel 7:1-2
1 So the people of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the Lord and took it to Abinadab’s house on the hill. They consecrated his son Eleazar to take care of it. 2 Time went by until twenty years had passed since the ark had been taken to Kiriath-jearim. Then the whole house of Israel longed for the Lord.
1 Chronicles 13:3-4
3 [David said,] “Let us bring back the ark of our God, for we did not inquire of him in Saul’s days.” 4 Since the proposal seemed right to all the people, the whole assembly agreed to do it.
Exodus 25:12-15
12 ”Cast four gold rings for it and place them on its four feet, two rings on one side and two rings on the other side. 13 Make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. 14 Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark in order to carry the ark with them. 15 The poles are to remain in the rings of the ark; they must not be removed from it.”
1 Chronicles 13:7
At Abinadab’s house they set the ark of God on a new cart.
1 Chronicles 13:7-8
7 At Abinadab’s house they set the ark of God on a new cart. Uzzah and Ahio were guiding the cart. 8 David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
1 Chronicles 13:9-10
9 When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to hold the ark because the oxen had stumbled. 10 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and he struck him dead because he had reached out to the ark. So he died there in the presence of God.
Isaiah 55:9
“For as heaven is higher than earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
1 Corinthians 1:25
God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
Isaiah 64:6
All of us have become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a menstruel garment;
// Without the immeasurable grace of God, we are
1 Chronicles 13:11-12
11 David was angry because of the Lord’s outburst against Uzzah, so he named that place ‘Outburst Against Uzzah’, as it is still named today. 12 David feared God that day and said, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
1 Chronicles 13:13-14
13 So David did not bring the ark of God home to the city of David; instead, he diverted it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath. 14 The ark of God remained with Obed-edom’s family in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed his family and all that he had.
// God doesn’t care much about what we try to do
// 5 Steps to take on the Road of Obedience
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1 Chronicles 15:3-4, 12
3 David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it. 4 Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites… 12 He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.”
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1 Chronicles 15:13
[David continued,] “For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”
3. The
So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. 15 Then the Levites carried the ark of God the way Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord: on their shoulders with the poles.
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2 Samuel 6:13
When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, David sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
2 Samuel 6:14
David was dancing with all his might before the Lord, wearing a linen ephod.
5. The
2 Samuel 6:20-22
20 When David returned home to bless his household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel honored himself today!” she said. “He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.” 21 David replied to Michal, “It was before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will dance before the Lord, 22 and I will dishonor myself and humble myself even more.”
Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that the Lord is good.