2 Samuel 6:5–13
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6:5while David and all Israel8 were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing9 and playing various stringed instruments,10 tambourines, rattles,11 and cymbals.
6:6When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon,12 Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of13 the ark of God,14 because the oxen stumbled. 6:7The Lord was so furious with Uzzah,15 he16 killed him on the spot17 for his negligence.18 He died right there beside the ark of God.
6:8David was angry because the Lord attacked19 Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah,20 which remains its name to this very day. 6:9David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?” 6:10So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 6:11The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family.216:12David was told,22 “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David. 6:13Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David23 sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.
Footnotes
- 8 Heb “all the house of Israel.”
- 9 Heb “were celebrating before the Lord with all woods of fir” (cf. , , ). If the text is retained, the last expression must be elliptical, referring to musical instruments made from fir wood. But it is preferable to emend the text in light of 1 Chr 13:8, which reads “were celebrating before the Lord with all strength and with songs.”
- 10 Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”
- 11 That is, “sistrums” (so , ); , , , , “castanets.”
- 12 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”
- 13 Or “steadied.”
- 14 Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”
- 15 Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”
- 16 Heb “God.”
- 17 Heb “there.” Since this same term occurs later in the verse it is translated “on the spot” here for stylistic reasons.
- 18 The phrase “his negligence” is absent from the .
- 19 Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] a breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”
- 20 The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”
- 21 Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.
- 22 Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”
- 23 Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
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