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神の箱の移動
1ダビデは将校全員を集めて会議を開き、 2イスラエルの全集団に呼びかけました。「あなたがたが私を王にすることを願い、また主がそれを承認してくださるなら、祭司やレビ人も含めてイスラエル全土にいる同胞に、すぐここへ集まれと伝えよう。 3それから、神の箱を持ち帰ろう。サウルが王となってからは、ずっと放置したままなのだから。」
4提案は満場一致で採択されました。
5そこでダビデは、キルヤテ・エアリムから運び出される神の箱を迎えるために、エジプトのシホルからレボ・ハマテに至るまでの、全イスラエルを召集したのです。
6ダビデと全イスラエルは、ケルビムの上に座している主なる神の箱を持ち帰ろうと、別名バアラともいう、ユダのキルヤテ・エアリムへ行きました。 7神の箱はアビナダブの家から運び出され、ウザとアフヨが御する真新しい牛車に載せられました。 8ダビデと全国民は、歌を歌い、琴、竪琴、タンバリン、シンバル、ラッパを鳴らし、主の前で力のかぎり踊りました。 9ところがキドンの打ち場まで来た時、牛がつまずいたので、ウザは思わず手を伸ばし、箱を押さえました。 10すると主の怒りがウザに向かって燃え上がり、ウザはその場に倒れました。 11ダビデはこの出来事に憤慨し、その場所をペレツ・ウザ（「ウザへの怒り」の意）と名づけました。今でもそう呼ばれています。
12あまりのことに、ダビデは主を恐れ、「どうして神の箱を私のもとに運ぶことなどできようか」と言いました。
13それで、それをダビデの町に持ち帰ることをあきらめ、ガテ人オベデ・エドムの家に置くことにしました。 14神の箱は、三か月間オベデ・エドムの家に置かれていました。その間、主はオベデ・エドムとその家族を祝福しました。
David Brings Back the Ark
1David talked with each of his officers. He wanted to get their advice. Some of them were commanders of thousands of men. Others were commanders of hundreds. 2David spoke to the whole community of Israel. He said, “Let’s send word to the rest of our people no matter how far away they live. They live in all the territories of Israel. Let’s also send word to the priests and Levites who are with them in their towns and on their grasslands. Let’s invite everyone to come and join us. Let’s do it if it seems good to you and if that’s what the Lord our God wants. 3Let’s bring the ark of our God back here to us. We didn’t use it to ask God for advice during the whole time Saul was king.” 4So that’s what the whole community agreed to do. It seemed right to them.
5David gathered together all the Israelites. They came from the area between the Shihor River in Egypt and Lebo Hamath. They came to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim to Jerusalem. 6David went to Baalah of Judah. The whole community of Israel went with him. Baalah is also called Kiriath Jearim. All the people went there to get the ark of God the Lord. He sits on his throne between the cherubim. The ark is named after the Lord.
7The ark of God was placed on a new cart. Then it was moved from Abinadab’s house. Uzzah and Ahio were guiding it. 8David was celebrating with all his might in front of God. So was the whole community of Israel. All of them were singing songs. They were also playing harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.
9They came to the threshing floor of Kidon. The oxen nearly fell there. So Uzzah reached out his hand to hold the ark steady. 10Then the Lord became very angry with Uzzah. The Lord struck him down because he had put his hand on the ark. So Uzzah died there in front of God.
11David was angry because the Lord’s great anger had broken out against Uzzah. That’s why the place is still called Perez Uzzah to this day.
12David was afraid of God that day. David asked, “How can I ever bring the ark of God back here to me?” 13So he didn’t take the ark to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom. Obed-Edom was from Gath. 14The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom. It stayed in his house for three months. And the Lord blessed his family. He also blessed everything that belonged to him.
