2 Samuel 6:1-11

21st Century King James Version

6 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

² And David arose, and went with all the people who were with him from Baale of Judah to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who dwelleth between the cherubims.

³ And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, that was at Gibeah; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

⁴ And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which wasat Gibeah, accompanying the ark of God; and Ahio went before the ark.

⁵ And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps and on psalteries, and on timbrels and on cornets, and on cymbals.

⁶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

⁸ And David was displeased because the Lord had broken out upon Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah [that is, The breach of Uzzah] to this day.

⁹ And David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?”

¹⁰ So David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the City of David, but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.

¹¹ And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months; and the Lord blessed Obededom and all his household.