⁷ The sacred chest was still at Abinadab's house,^[a] and when David and the crowd arrived there, they brought the chest outside and placed it on a new ox cart. Abinadab's sons^[b] Uzzah and Ahio guided the cart, ⁸ while David and the crowd danced and sang praises to the Lord with all their might. They played music on small harps and other stringed instruments, and on tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

⁹ But when they came to Chidon's threshing place, the oxen stumbled, and Uzzah reached out and took hold of the chest to stop it from falling.