And all the congregation said that they would do so They unanimously agreed to the motion: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people; they saw the propriety, necessity, and usefulness of it.
2
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, "If it seem good unto you, and if it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren everywhere who are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites who are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us.
3
And let us bring back the ark of our God to us, for we inquired not at it in the days of Saul."
4
And all the congregation said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5
So David gathered all Israel together from Shihor of Egypt, even unto the entrance of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim.
6
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God the LORD, who dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
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