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Obed-Edom Scripture - 2 Chronicles 25:24

And [he took] all the gold and the silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obededom, and the treasures of the king's house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria....

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Obed-Edom in Wikipedia

Obed-Edom - servant of Edom. "The Gittite" (probably so called because he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites,[1] to whom was specially entrusted the custody of the ark.[2] When David was bringing up the ark "from the house of Abinadab, that was in Gibeah" (probably some hill or eminence near Kiriath-jearim), a...

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Obed-Edom Scripture - 1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;...

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Obed-Edom Scripture - 2 Samuel 6:10

So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite....

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Obed-Edom in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

o'-bed-e'-dom (`obhedh 'edhowm (2 Ch 25:24), `obhedd 'edhom (2 Sam 6:10; 1 Ch 13:13,14; 15:25), but elsewhere without hyphen, "servant of (god) Edom"; so W. R. Smith, Religion of Semites (2), 42, and H. P. Smith, Samuel, 294 f, though others explain it as = "servant of man"): In 2 Sam 6:10,11,12; 1 Ch 13:13,14 a Philistine of Gath and servant ...

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Obed-Edom in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A Korhite Levite Doorkeeper of the ark of the covenant 1Ch 15:18,24; 26:4-8 David leaves the ark of the covenant with 2Sa 6:10; 1Ch 13:13,14 The ark of the covenant removed from 2Sa 6:12; 1Ch 15:25 Appointed to sound with harps 1Ch 15:21 Appointed to minister before the ark of the covenant 1Ch 16:4,5,37,38 -2. A doorkeeper of the tem...

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Obed-Edom in Hitchcock's Bible Names

servant of Edom...

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Obed-Edom in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(servant of Edom). 1. A Levite, described as a Gittite, 2Sa 6:10,11 that is, probably, a native of the Levitical city of Gath-rimmon in Manasseh, which was assigned to the Kohathites. Jos 21:25 (B.C. 1045.) After the death of Uzzah, the ark, which was being conducted from the house of Abinadab in Gibeah to the city of David, was carried aside...

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Obed-Edom in Easton's Bible Dictionary

servant of Edom. (1.) "The Gittite" (probably so called because he was a native of Gath-rimmon), a Levite of the family of the Korhites (1 Chr. 26:1, 4-8), to whom was specially intrusted the custody of the ark (1 Chr. 15:18). When David was bringing up the ark "from the house of Abinadab, that was in Gibeah" (probably some hill or eminen...

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Obed-Edom in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. 2 Samuel 6:11. (On his title "the Gittite".) Gath-rimmon was a city of the Levite Kohathites in Dan (Joshua 21:24). He was a Kohathite and distinguished by his title "Gittite" from Obed Edom, son of Jeduthun, a Merarite (1 Chronicles 16:38). frontGITTITE.) Lived near Perez Uzzah, on the way from Kirjath Jearim to Jerusalem. After Uzzah's st...

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