{"id":1553,"date":"2012-04-10T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldsandals.net\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2012-04-19T09:24:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T13:24:49","slug":"1-chronicles-10-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1553","title":{"rendered":"(1 Chronicles 13) For whatever reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>And when they came to Chidon\u2019s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.\u00a0\u00a0Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.\u00a0And David became angry because of the Lord\u2019s outbreak against Uzza; therefore that place is called Perez Uzza to this day.\u00a0David was afraid of God that day, saying, \u201cHow can I bring the ark of God\u00a0to me?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a difficult passage, to say the least.\u00a0 <em>The anger of the LORD was aroused.<\/em>\u00a0 The LORD is not a static Being in the heavens, who does not really care one way or the other what we do, how we act, how we treat things that are sacred.<\/p>\n<p>Uzza, along with all of the Israelites, knew (or certainly should have known) that their God was holy, and that the ark was holy.\u00a0 For a man to touch the ark&#8212;for whatever reason&#8212;without God&#8217;s instruction was deadly.<\/p>\n<p>The LORD is in his holy temple, but He is also in our midst.\u00a0 Let all the earth keep silence before Him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And when they came to Chidon\u2019s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, for the oxen stumbled.\u00a0\u00a0Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzza, and He struck him because he put his hand to the ark; and he died there before God.\u00a0And David became angry because of the Lord\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/?p=1553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(1 Chronicles 13) For whatever reason&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oldsandals.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}