2 Samuel 6:5-15

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. ¹¹ And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, ^(F)and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

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.” ^(G)So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom ^(H)to the city of David with rejoicing. ¹³ And when ^(I)those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, ^(J)he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. ¹⁴ And David ^(K)danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was ^(L)wearing a linen ephod. 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.