1 Chronicles 15:26

Translations

Modern

And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

Traditional

And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

Literal

And it came to pass, in God helping the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of YHWH, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams.

Latin

Cumque adjuvisset Deus Levitas qui portabant arcam fœderis Domini, immolabantur septem tauri, et septem arietes.

Original

Hebrew

English

And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

Notes

1 Chronicles 15:1–29

David once more planned to bring the ark of God to Jerusalem. This time, he prepared carefully to ensure success.

Theme notes and profiles

David Celebration Seeking the Lord

Related verses

Numbers 23:29
Then Balaam said, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
Job 42:8
So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
Psalm 66:13–15
I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—
1 Chronicles 29:14
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
Ezekiel 45:23
Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.
Acts 26:22
But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
Numbers 23:1–4
Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
2 Samuel 6:13
When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
1 Samuel 7:12
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
2 Corinthians 2:16
To the one we are an odor that brings death, to the other a fragrance that brings life. And who is qualified for such a task?
2 Corinthians 3:5
Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.
Numbers 29:32
On the seventh day you are to present seven bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs a year old, all unblemished,

People

Levi: Son of Jacob; progenitor of the Levites

Glossary

Chronicles, Books of First and Second David Genealogy Kenaniah Merari, Merarite Obed-Edom Singer

Topics

Ark of the Covenant: Brought Into the City of David Levites: Carried the Ark of the Covenant Seven: Miscellany of Sevens: Rams and Bullocks to the Number of, Required in Sarifices

1 Chronicles 15:26

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