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1 Chronicles 13:1–8, “And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader. And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul. And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people. So David gathered all Israel together, from Shihor of Egypt even unto the entering of Hemath, to bring the ark of God from Kirjathjearim. And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it. And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.”
After David was established as king over Israel and settled in Jerusalem, his city, he decided that it was time to bring the Ark of the Covenant into Zion. They went throughout all the Land and called on every Israeli to support them in this venture. The ark was brought on a bullock cart. This was because the Philistines had previously captured the ark during the time of Eli, the judge and priest. The Lord gave the Philistines a severe plague until they eventually returned the ark to its rightful owners. In order to make sure that their disaster had come from the Lord and was not just a random event, the Philistines took some cows that had just calved and yoked them to a bullock cart, they tied their calves nearby and then let the cows and the cart go. Normally a cow will go to its own newborn calf but in that case the cows took the bullock cart with the ark back to Israel so they knew that the Lord had caused the plague. After that the Israelis thought that it was okay to transport the ark on a bullock cart.
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