2 Samuel 6:5-10

English Standard Version

Uzzah and the Ark

⁵ And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with ^(A)songs^[a] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. ⁶ And when they came to the threshing floor of ^(B)Nacon, Uzzah ^(C)put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. ⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and ^(D)God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. ⁸ And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah^[b] to this day. ⁹ And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” ¹⁰ So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside ^(E)to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.