The document summarizes the story of Obed-Edom, a Gittite who housed the Ark of the Covenant for three months after it was moved from Beth Shemesh. During this time, Obed-Edom and his whole household were greatly blessed by God. Impressed by this, King David had Obed-Edom serve as a gatekeeper, musician, and doorkeeper for the Ark. Obed-Edom and his descendants were further promoted and blessed, demonstrating that God rewards those who faithfully serve him, even if they are not initially Israelite.

1. OBED-EDOM
GOD
HIMSELF
PUT HIM IN
A HIGH
PLACE.

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4. OBED-EDOM
FROM GENTILE,
TO GATEKEEPER,
MUSICIAN, AND
DOORKEEPER
FOR THE ARK OF
THE TESTIMONY
OF THE LORD

5. OBED-EDOM A
PROPHETIC PICTURE OF
GENTILES HAVING FREE
ACCESS TO THE PRESENCE OF
ALMIGHTY GOD.

6. SUMMARIZING THE PASS CLASS
• The Ark was captured by the Philistines.
• They desecrate the Ark and the Lord put many curses on them:
• Rats, boils, terror, death of many Philistines.
• After all this, they decided to release the Ark, and return it to Israel.
• At the advise of diviners, they send it back with gold treasure.
• The Ark returned to Beth-Shemesh, where 50.070 people died.
• From there passed to Kiriath-jearim, and stayed there for 92 years.
• David becomes king, and decided to bring the ark to his home.

7. TAKING THE ARK
HOME
• 1 Chronicles 13:7-8 (NKJV)
• 7 So they [a]carried the ark of
God on a new cart from the
house of Abinadab, and Uzza
and Ahio drove the
cart. 8 Then David and all Israel
played music before God with
all their might, with [b]singing,
on harps, on stringed
instruments, on tambourines,
on cymbals, and with trumpets.
• David didn’t ask God about the way of
transporting the ark.
• They copied the way in which the
Philistines delivered it.
• At this time the ark by this time, was
probably covered properly.
• There was singing, praising and joy in
the transportation.
• And they did it with all their might.

8. CONSEQUENCES OF NOT
FOLLOWING THE
COMMAND OF HOW TO
TRANSPORT THE ARK.
• 2 Samuel 6:6-9 (NKJV)
• 6 And when they came to Nachon’s
threshing floor, Uzzah put out his
hand to the ark of God and [a]took hold
of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the
anger of the LORD was aroused against
Uzzah, and God struck him there
for his [b]error; and he died there by the
ark of God. 8 And David became angry
because of the LORD’s outbreak against
Uzzah; and he called the name of the
place [c]Perez Uzzah to this day.
• 9 David was afraid of the LORD that day;
and he said, “How can the ark of
the LORD come to me?”
• Abinadab and his family were not
Levites, they did not know how to move
the Ark of the Lord.
• Fire came down from the Lord and
consumed Uzzah.
• David god angry.
• David was afraid of the Lord.

9. WHO WAS
OBED-EDOM
• 1 Chronicles 13:13-14 (NKJV)
• 13 So David would not move the
ark with him into the City of
David, but took it aside into the
house of Obed-Edom the
Gittite. 14 The ark of God
remained with the family of
Obed-Edom in his house three
months. And the LORD blessed the
house of Obed-Edom and all that
he had.
• He was a Gittite.
• King David entrusted him with taking
care of the Ark.
• He and his whole family welcome the
presence of the Lord with them.
• It stayed with THE FAMILY of Obed-
Edom three months.
• In this short term, the Lord blessed
each one of them and all that they
have.

10. THE GITTITES
• 2 Samuel 15:18-19 (NKJV)
• 18 Then all his servants
passed [a]before him; and all the
Cherethites, all the Pelethites, and all
the Gittites, six hundred men who
had followed him from Gath, passed
before the king.
• 19 Then the king said to Ittai the
Gittite, “Why are you also going with
us? Return and remain with the king.
For you are a foreigner and also an
exile from your own place.
• When David, his family and his close
ones were running from Absalon’s
treason
• 600 Gittites formed King David’s
Bodyguard,
• They were foreigners, and off course
exiles.
• Cherethites and Pelethites as well are
foreigners.
• At some point they immigrate to Juda

11. WHO WERE THE GITTITES?
• Gittites [H](belonging to Gath ),
• the 600 men who followed David from Gath, under Ittai the Gittite, ( 2 Samuel
15:18 2 Samuel 15:19 ) and who probably acted as a kind of body-guard. Obed-
edom "the Gittite" may have been so named from the town of Gittaim in Benjamin,
( 2 Samuel 4:3 ; Nehemiah 11:33 ) or from Gath-rimmon.
• Taken from:
• https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/gittites/

12. GIT'-ITS (GITTIM, PLURAL OF GITTIY):
• The inhabitants of Gath.
• They are mentioned along with the inhabitants of the other chief Philistine cities
in Joshua 13:3.
• It would seem that numbers of them emigrated to Judah, for we find 600 of them
acting as a bodyguard to David with Ittai at their head (2 Samuel 15:18; 18:2).
• Obed-edom, to whom David entrusted the ark when he was frustrated in bringing it
into the city of David, was a Gittite (2 Samuel 6:11; 1 Chronicles 13:13). The Gittites
seem to have been remarkable for their great stature (2 Samuel 21:19; 1 Chronicles
20:5).

13. DISAGREEMENTS ABOUT OBED-EDOM
• Most scholars agree that in the name "Obed-Edom the Gittite," (as
he is called in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13) the term "Gittite"
refers originally to a Philistine (and therefore a non-Israelite
man). However, in Chronicles "Obed-Edom is assigned a Levitical
pedigree," that is, is described as a Levite, an Israelite member of
the tribe entrusted with holy responsibilities. This description as a
Levite is "usually regarded as the Chronicler's own
interpretation." The Chronicler has altered the original description
of a Philistine Obed-Edom in order to make the character a Levite.

14. WHO IS OBED-EDOM
A GENTILE
EXTRIMILY BLESSED
BY GOD
•His choices,
•His way of life,
•Permit him to receive
blessing for him, family
and descendants.

15. 1 CHRONICLES 15:18 (NKJV)
•18 and with them their brethren of the
second rank: Zechariah, [a]Ben, Jaaziel,
Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah,
Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-
Edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers;

16. 1 CHRONICLES 15:19-21 (NKJV)
•19 the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to
sound the cymbals of bronze; 20 Zechariah, [b]Aziel,
Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and
Benaiah, with strings
accordingto Alamoth; 21 Mattithiah, Elipheleh,
Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, to direct
with harps on the Sheminith;

17. 1 CHRONICLES 15:22-24 (NKJV)
• 22 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites, was instructor in
charge of the music, because he was
skillful; 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for
the ark; 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai,
Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow
the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom
and Jehiah, doorkeepers for the ark.

18. 1 CHRONICLES
16:37-38 (NKJV)
• 37 So he left Asaph and his
brothers there before the
ark of the covenant of
the LORD to minister before
the ark regularly, as every
day’s work
required; 38 and Obed-
Edom with his sixty-eight
brethren, including Obed-
Edom the son of Jeduthun,
and Hosah, to
be gatekeepers;
• Obed-Edom, his family and relatives are
designated by King David to be
gatekeepers.
• A young priest, Asaph and brothers to
minister before the Lord.
• Here is mentioned 68 brethren.
• The chronicler names Jeduthun as
father of Obed-Edom.

19. 1 CHRONICLES 26:4-8 (NKJV)
• 4 Moreover the sons of Obed-Edom were Shemaiah the firstborn,
Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel
the fifth, 5 Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the
eighth; for God blessed him. 6 Also to Shemaiah his son were sons
born who governed their fathers’ houses, because they were men
of great ability. 7 The sons of Shemaiah were Othni, Rephael,
Obed, and Elzabad, whose brothers Elihu and
Semachiah were able men. 8 All these were of the sons of Obed-
Edom, they and their sons and their brethren, able men with
strength for the work: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

20. 1 CHRONICLES 26:12-19 (NKJV)
• 12 Among these were the divisions of the gatekeepers, among
the chief men, having duties just like their brethren, to serve
in the house of the LORD. 13 And they cast lots for each gate,
the small as well as the great, according to their father’s
house. 14 The lot for the East Gate fell to [a]Shelemiah. Then
they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a wise counselor, and his
lot came out for the North Gate; 15 to Obed-Edom the South
Gate, and to his sons the [b]storehouse.

21. HIS ACTION TRIGGERED
THE BLESSINGS OF GOD

22. • He knew that Uzzah was killed for touching the Ark of the Lord.
• None the less he received the Ark, and his whole family accept it as well. He knew in
his heart that the God of Israel is a Good and Holy God.
• It implies that He was a man of faith to accept the Ark of the Lord in his house.
• The Ark stayed with them for three months, and the Lord blessed his household and
everything he owned.
• He was blessed in such a way that King David here about this.
• On knowing this, King David understands that the Lord is not angry because he
wants to take the Ark home, but that needs to be taken in the proper way.

23. THE ARK LEAVES HIS HOUSE
• The Ark is moved now in the correct way.
• Obed-Edom then has a choice:
• To live happy and thankful for the fellowship he has experienced in the presence of
the Lord, and to keep leaving a blessed life, or
• To move with the Ark of God, to continue in God’s presence and in an evergoing
relationship with God.
• His desire for the Lord cause him to leave his place and move with God.
• He already took good care of the Ark.
• He will do anything as long as it means that he’ll be close to the Lord.

24. PROMOTED IN HIS MINISTRY
• He becomes a Gatekeeper
• A Musician
• A Doorkeeper for the Ark
• The Lord sees the Heart of Obed-Edom, a desire and faithful love to be close to Him,
so the Lord starts to bless him again, this time with the blessing comes a promotion.
• Obed –Edom becomes a Worship Leader, and is mentioned with Aspah the Chief
Musician.
• He takes the promotion, but humbly he still keeps the gates.

25. EXTENDED BLESSING TO HIS FAMILY
• He is not only blessed in ministry and in relationship with God, but his family is
blessed.
• He was blessed with eight sons.
• His sons and grandsons also worship the Lord
• They were 62 and all of them leaders.
• Besides all his other duties, he was put in charge of the South Gate of the Temple.
• And his sons became keepers of the storehouse.
• Hid faithfulness gain a legacy of generational blessings.

26. MOVING TO WHERE GOD IS
• Obed-Edom has to pack and physically move to stay in the presence of the Lord.
• His relationship with God stablished a relationship between God and his children
and all his descendants
• Today we don’t need to physically travel to be in the presence of God.
• We as believers have the Holy Spirit within us.
• But is up to us to move from our daily doings, to leave aside our busyness and come
into the shelter of His Holy Presence.
• His desire is to have a relationship with us, He wants us to be passionate for him.
We need to do what it takes to be in His glorious presence.

27. SOME STEPS TO COME INTO HIS PRESENCE
• Keep a pure heart.
• Unconfessed sin is a block for the blessings of God.
• Confess your sin, ask for forgiveness.
• Forgive your offenders, and bless them.
• Be careful of what you watch on TV, on internet, and what you listen on the radio

28. • Study the Word of God.
• Meditate on it daily.
• Meditation is thinking about a particular scripture, about the love of God, over and
over again. This is simple and effective.
• The more often you do this, the easier it gets.
• Worship music helps to meditate, and brings the presence of God.
• Finally, just relax and rest in the presence of the Lord.
• What we call SOAKING in His Presence.
• Is in this times that God will give you directions about what to do.

29. • Finally, get involved, do something!
• Get moving.
• Get involved in your Church, in your community.
• Don’t despise humble beginnings.
• Don’t wait for the Lord to tell you what to do. Start doing something!
• Then your promotion will come.
• Wait on the Lord, doesn’t mean doing nothing.
• But while you are doing something, you are waiting for directions.
• Be ready to be a blessing for your family, descendants and your community.

30. NEXT WEEK:
THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON