13because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'


In Context

10 Of sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and twelve.

11 And David calleth to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

12 and saith to them, 'Ye are heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto the place I have prepared for it;

13 because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

14 And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel;

15 and sons of the Levites bear the ark of God, as Moses commanded, according to the word of Jehovah, on their shoulder, with staves, above them.

1 Chronicles 15:13 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

15:13It was because you, the Levites, did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us. We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:13For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:13Lest as the Lord at first struck us, because you were not present, the same should now also come to pass, by our doing some thing against the law.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:13For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:13For because ye did it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:13For because ye bare it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:13For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:13For because you didn't carry it at first, Yahweh our God made broke out against us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.|

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:13For because you did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach on us, for that we sought him not after the due order.