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 35:6Kill the Passover, sanctify yourselves, and prepare for your brothers, to do according to Yahweh’s word by Moses.”
• Exod 19:14–15Moses went down from the mountain to 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 Yahweh, the God of Israel.
• Rom 12:1–2Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• 2 Chr 30:15Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into Yahweh’s house.
• Rev 5:9–10They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
• John 17:17Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
• 1 Chr 9:34These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.
• 1 Chr 24:31These likewise cast lots even as their brothers the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ households of the chief even as those of his younger brother.
• 1 Chr 15:1David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
• 2 Chr 5:11When the priests had come out of the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and didn’t keep their divisions;
• 2 Chr 29:4–5He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,
• Ezek 48:11It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
• 1 Chr 15:3David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up Yahweh’s ark to its place, which he had prepared for it.

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