Uzzah and the Ark (2SA 6:5-15)

[6:5] And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

[6:6] And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

[6:7] And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.

[6:8] And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-Uzzah to this day.

[6:9] And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”

[6:10] So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

[6:11] And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

[6:12] And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with rejoicing.

[6:13] And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.

[6:14] And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.

[6:15] So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.

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