2 Samuel 6:2–17

²He and all his troops set out^s to bring the ark of God from Baale-judah. The ark bears the Name, the name of the Lord of Armies who is enthroned between the cherubim.^{t 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,^E sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart^{u 4}and brought it with the ark of God from Abinadab’s house on the hill. Ahio walked in front of the ark. ⁵David and the whole house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all kinds of fir wood instruments, lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums,^B and cymbals.^v

⁶When 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. ⁷Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah,^w and God struck him dead on the spot for his irreverence,^x and he died there next to the ark of God. ⁸David was angry because of the Lord’s outburst against Uzzah, so he named that place Outburst Against Uzzah, as it is today. ⁹David feared the Lord that day and said, “How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me?” ¹⁰So he was not willing to bring the ark of the Lord to the city of David;^a instead, he diverted it to the house of Obed-edom of Gath. ¹¹The ark of the Lord remained in his house three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom^b and his whole family.

¹²It was reported to King David, “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing.^{c 13}When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.^{d 14}David was dancing^D with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.^{e 15}He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the trumpet. ¹⁶As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David,^f Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it.^g Then David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in the Lord’s presence.