2 Samuel 6:2-11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² He and all his troops set out^(A) to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah.^[a] The ark bears the Name, the name of the Lord of Armies who is enthroned between the cherubim.^{(B) 3} They set the ark of God on a new cart and transported it from Abinadab’s house, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio,^[b] sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart^{(C) 4} and brought it with the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on the hill. Ahio walked in front of the ark. ⁵ David and the whole house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all kinds of fir wood instruments,^[c] lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums,^[d] and cymbals.^(D)

⁶ When they came to Nacon’s threshing-floor, Uzzah reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it because the oxen had stumbled. ⁷ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah,^(E) and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence,^(F) and he died there next to the ark of God. ⁸ David was angry because of the Lord’s outburst against Uzzah, so he named that place Outburst Against Uzzah,^[e] as it is today. ⁹ David feared the Lord that day and said, ‘How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me? ’ ¹⁰ So he was not willing to bring the ark of the Lord to the city of David;^(G) instead, he diverted it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath. ¹¹ The ark of the Lord remained in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom^(H) and his whole family.