Uzzah Touches the Ark

(1 Chronicles 13:8–14)

David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

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When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon,[fn] Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled. 7 And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence,[fn] and he died there beside the ark of God.

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Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place vvv Perez-uzzah,[fn] as it is [called] to this day.

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That day David feared the LORD and asked,“How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?” 10 So he vvv was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD to the City of David; instead, he took it aside to the house vvv of Obed-edom the Gittite. 11 Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the house vvv of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed vvv [him] and all his household.

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