12And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
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My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people. …
But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
And the children of Israel spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish. …
And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-14)This breach upon Uzza, which caused all the joy to cease, we had an account of, 2 Sam. 6:6-8 1. Let the sin of Uzza warn us all to take heed of presumption, rashness, and irreverence, in dealing about holy things (1 Chron. 13:9), and not to think that a good intention will justify a bad action. In our communion with God we must carefully watch over our own hearts, lest familiarity breed contempt,…
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