1 Chronicles 15:12

David charged the leaders to consecrate themselves so they could bring up the ark. Holiness in the worshipers, not just correct method, was required.

Cross-references · 14

• 2 Chr 35:6So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
• Exod 19:14–15And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
• 1 Chr 15:14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
• Rom 12:1–2I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• 2 Chr 30:15Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.
• Rev 5:9–10And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• John 17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
• 1 Chr 9:34These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
• 1 Chr 24:31These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.
• 1 Chr 15:1And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
• 2 Chr 5:11And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place: (for all the priests that were present were sanctified, and did not then wait by course:
• 2 Chr 29:4–5And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
• Ezek 48:11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
• 1 Chr 15:3And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.

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