1 Chronicles 15:26
Good News Translation
They sacrificed seven bulls and seven sheep, to make sure that God would help the Levites who were carrying the Covenant Box.

New Revised Standard Version
And because God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

Contemporary English Version
God gave the Levites the strength they needed to carry the chest, and so they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

New American Bible
While God helped the Levites to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.

God

1 Chronicles 29:14 Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand.

1 Samuel 7:12 And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place The stone of help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

Acts 26:22 But being aided by the help of God, I stand unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other thing than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come to pass:

2 Corinthians 2:16 To the one indeed the odour of death unto death: but to the others the odour of life unto life. And for these things who is so sufficient?

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

they

2 Samuel 6:13 And when they that carried the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed and ox and a ram:

Psalm 66:13-15 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, . . .

bullocks

Numbers 23:1,2,4,29 And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams. . . .

Numbers 29:32 The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:

Job 42:8 Take unto you therefore seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer for yourselves a holocaust, and my servant Job shall pray for you: his face I will accept, that folly be not imputed to you: for you have not spoken right things before me, as my servant Job hath.

Ezekiel 45:23 And in the solemnity of the seven days he shall offer for a holocaust to the Lord, seven calves, and seven rams without blemish daily for seven days: and for sin a he goat daily.

Context
Moving the Ark to Jerusalem
25So David and all the ancients of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obededom with joy. 26And when God had helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they offered in sacrifice seven oxen, and seven rams.27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that carried the ark, and the singing men, and Chonenias the ruler of the prophecy among the singers: and David also had on him an ephod of linen.…
Cross References
Numbers 23:1
And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

Numbers 23:29
Balaam said to him: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.

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