Town where the ark remains before brings it toward Jerusalem.
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Who or what is this?
Town in the hill country west of where the ark of the covenant is brought after the Philistines return it on a new cart, and where it remains in the house of Abinadab for twenty years under the care of his son . From here eventually attempts to bring it to Jerusalem on a cart, the journey on which Uzzah is struck down for steadying the ark at the threshing floor of Nacon. The prophet son of Shemaiah, contemporary of , also comes from this town.
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Modern location: Deir el Azar. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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