1 Chronicles 13:7

a new cart A new cart was chosen as one which had not been profaned by common work. So (Judges 16:11-12) new ropes "wherewith no work hath been done" were used in the attempt to bind the consecrated man, Samson. So also (Mark 11:2; Mark 11:7) our Lord rode into Jerusalem on a colt "whereon no man ever yet sat."

the house of Abinadab Here the ark had been for at least twenty years under the charge of a man sanctified to keep it (1 Samuel 7:1-2)