{"id":7016,"date":"2023-09-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:39:43","slug":"1-chronicles-1314-the-ark-of-god-remained-with-the-family-of-obed-edom-in-his-house-three-months-and-the-lord-blessed-the-house-of-obed-edom-and-all-that-he-had-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/?p=7016","title":{"rendered":"1 Chronicles 13:14: “The ark of God remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months. And the LORD blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that he had.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

King David desired to bring the ark of the covenant, which represented the presence of God, into Jerusalem; but he failed to do it in God’s prescribed way: having Levites carry the ark on poles (Ex. 25:12\u201315) and not allowing anyone to touch the ark (Num. 4:5). Instead David had it brought back on a cart. On the way, one of the men helping, Uzza, touched the ark and died. So instead of taking it into Jerusalem, David left the ark at the house of Obed-Edom. As a priest, Obed-Edom met the requirements of the law for service as caretaker of the ark, and both he and his family were greatly blessed by God. We should not be surprised that the presence and power of God in this man’s home changed his family\u2019s home life. When we invite God into our lives, He blesses us as<\/em> He changes us.<\/p>\n

The presence of God changed Obed-Edom\u2019s home. We read in 1 Chronicles 26:8 that he had 62 descendants who followed in his footsteps. This man not only allowed the power of God to work in his life, but he was an example to his family of how the presence of God changes a person. We can expect God’s blessing on other family members in our own homes. As we allow God to flow through, He will bring change in them. If we want to influence others for Jesus Christ, we must first allow God to take control and empower our own lives.<\/p>\n

As a boy, author Robert Louis Stevenson was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland where the streets were still lit by gaslights in the 1860’s. Each evening at dusk a lamplighter would go from lamp to lamp and carefully light it. Stevenson watched out his window as this happened one evening and said to his mother, “Look, Mom, the man is coming down the street making holes in the night.” That is what God has called us to do, make holes in the darkness.<\/p>\n

“LORD, fill us with Your power and presence so that we might take You into our world today.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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1 Chronicles 13 KJV<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1<\/sup>\u00a0And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds,\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>with every leader.\u00a02<\/sup>\u00a0And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If\u00a0it seem\u00a0<\/em>good unto you, and\u00a0that it be\u00a0<\/em>of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where,\u00a0that are\u00a0<\/em>left in all the land of Israel, and with them\u00a0also\u00a0<\/em>to the priests and Levites\u00a0which are\u00a0<\/em>in their cities\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:\u00a03<\/sup>\u00a0And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.\u00a0\u00a04<\/sup>\u00a0And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.\u00a05<\/sup>\u00a0So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjath-jearim.\u00a06<\/sup>\u00a0And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah,\u00a0that is<\/em>, to Kirjath-jearim, which\u00a0belonged\u00a0<\/em>to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the\u00a0LORD, that dwelleth\u00a0between\u00a0<\/em>the cherubims, whose name is called\u00a0on it<\/em>.\u00a07<\/sup>\u00a0And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.\u00a0\u00a08<\/sup>\u00a0And David and all Israel played before God with all\u00a0their\u00a0<\/em>might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.\u00a09<\/sup>\u00a0And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.\u00a010<\/sup>\u00a0And the anger of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.\u00a011<\/sup>\u00a0And David was displeased, because the\u00a0LORD\u00a0had made a breach upon Uzza: wherefore that place is called Perez-uzza to this day.\u00a012<\/sup>\u00a0And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God\u00a0home\u00a0<\/em>to me?\u00a013<\/sup>\u00a0So David brought not the ark\u00a0home\u00a0<\/em>to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.\u00a014<\/sup>\u00a0And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months. And the\u00a0LORD\u00a0blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King David desired to bring the ark of the covenant, which represented the presence of God, into Jerusalem; but he failed to do it in God’s prescribed way: having Levites carry the ark on poles (Ex. 25:12\u201315) and not allowing anyone to touch the ark (Num. 4:5). Instead David had it brought back on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16324,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/16324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packinghouseredlands.org\/devotional\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}