²⁰ Then the people of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? To whom shall he go so that we may be rid of him?”^(A)

² But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears?

For he is like a refiner’s fire and like washers’ soap;^(A)

⁹ David was afraid of the Lord that day; he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come into my care?”

¹⁷ for the great day of their^[a] wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”^(A)

³⁷ Then the whole throng of people of the surrounding region of the Gerasenes^[a] asked Jesus^[b] to leave them, for they were seized with great fear. So he got into the boat and returned.^(A)

⁸ But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’s knees, saying, “Go away from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man!”

¹¹ David was angry because the Lord had burst out against Uzzah, so that place is called Perez-uzzah^[a] to this day. ¹² David was afraid of God that day; he said, “How can I bring the ark of God into my care?” ¹³ So David did not take the ark into his care into the city of David; he took it instead to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

⁷ The anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there,^[a] and he died there beside the ark of God.^(A)

⁸ So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” The inhabitants of Gath replied, “Let the ark of God be moved on to us.”^[a] So they moved the ark of the God of Israel to Gath.^{[b](A) 9} But after they had brought it to Gath,^[c] the hand of the Lord was against the city, causing a very great panic; he struck the inhabitants of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.^{(B) 10} So they sent the ark of the God of Israel^[d] to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “Why^[e] have they brought around to us^[f] the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our^[g] people?” ¹¹ They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our^[h] people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there;^{(C) 12} those who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.