1 Chronicles 13:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor [the brook] of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּקְהֵ֤ל דָּוִיד֙ אֶת־כָּל־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִן־שִׁיח֥וֹר מִצְרַ֖יִם וְעַד־לְב֣וֹא חֲמָ֑ת לְהָבִיא֙ אֶת־אֲר֣וֹן הָאֱלֹהִ֔ים מִקִּרְיַ֖ת יְעָרִֽים׃

Transliteration

wə-yaqhēl dāwîd ʾet-kol-yiśrāʾēl min-šîḥôr miṣrayim wə-ʿad-ləbôʾ ḥămāt ləhābîʾ ʾet-ʾărôn hā-ʾĕlōhîm miq-qiryat yəʿārîm

Grammar Details

*wə-yaqhēl*: conjunction + Hiphil imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he assembled
*dāwîd*: proper noun, masculine singular - David
*ʾet*: direct object marker
*kol*: noun construct - all of
*yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
*min*: preposition - from
*šîḥôr*: proper noun - Shihor
*miṣrayim*: proper noun - Egypt
*wə-ʿad*: conjunction + preposition - and unto
*ləbôʾ*: preposition + Qal infinitive construct - entering of
*ḥămāt*: proper noun - Hamath
*ləhābîʾ*: preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct - to bring
*ʾărôn*: masculine singular construct noun - ark of
*hā-ʾĕlōhîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the God
*miq-qiryat*: preposition + proper noun construct - from Kiriath
*yəʿārîm*: proper noun - Jearim

Word Meanings

*šîḥôr*: Shihor/Nile/brook of Egypt
*ləbôʾ ḥămāt*: entrance of Hamath/Lebo-Hamath (a place name)

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 6:21-7:1 : 21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Jehovah; come ye down, and fetch it up to you. 1 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Jehovah, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Jehovah.
2 Sam 6:1 : 1 And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
1 Kgs 8:65 : 65 So Solomon held the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly, from the entrance of Hamath unto the brook of Egypt, before Jehovah our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.
1 Chr 15:3 : 3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah unto its place, which he had prepared for it.
Jer 2:18 : 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? or what hast thou to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?
2 Kgs 25:21 : 21 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.
1 Chr 13:6 : 6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God Jehovah that sitteth [above] the cherubim, [ that is called] [by the Name.]
1 Kgs 4:21 : 21 And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought tribute, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
Num 34:5-8 : 5 and the border shall turn about from Azmon unto the brook of Egypt, and the goings out thereof shall be at the sea. 6 And for the western border, ye shall have the great sea and the border [thereof]: this shall be your west border. 7 And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor; 8 from mount Hor ye shall mark out unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings out of the border shall be at Zedad;
Josh 13:3-6 : 3 from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, 4 on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongeth to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; 5 and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath; 6 all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

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1 Chr 13:6-8
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6And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, [that is], to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God Jehovah that sitteth [above] the cherubim, [ that is called] [by the Name.]
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1 Chr 15:3-4
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3And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah unto its place, which he had prepared for it.
4And David gathered together the sons of Aaron, and the Levites:
2 Chr 1:4
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4But the ark of God had David brought up from Kiriath-jearim to [the place] that David had prepared for it; for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
2 Chr 5:2
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1 Chr 15:25
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1And David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
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2 Chr 5:4-5
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1 Chr 13:12-13
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1 Kgs 8:1
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1Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' [houses] of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Chr 13:2-4
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2And David said unto all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and if it be of Jehovah our God, let us send abroad every where unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us;
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1 Sam 5:1
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1 Chr 15:1
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1 Chr 15:28
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1 Sam 5:8
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1 Chr 15:12
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1 Sam 4:3
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1 Sam 14:18
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Josh 13:3-4
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1 Chr 15:14
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