¹² David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring the ark of God to me?”

²⁷ “But ^(A)will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the ^(B)heaven of heavens cannot contain You. How much less this temple which I have built!

The Ark at Kirjath Jearim

²⁰ And the men of Beth Shemesh said, ^(A)“Who is able to stand before this holy Lord God? And to whom shall it go up from us?”

¹⁰ Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. So it was, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people!” ¹¹ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go back to its own place, so that it does not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

¹² So the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Surely we die, we perish, we all perish! ^13 (A)Whoever even comes near the tabernacle of the Lord must die. Shall we all utterly die?”

⁸ When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, ^(A)“Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”

⁹ For he and all who were with him were ^(B)astonished at the catch of fish which they had taken;

²⁴ “Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered seed.

⁵ So I said: