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Uzzah and Ahio,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8161a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>with the ark of God;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8162b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> and Ahio<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8162c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> went in front of the ark. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with all their might, with songs<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8163d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen shook it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>The anger of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there because he reached out his hand to the ark;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8165e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> and he died there beside the ark of God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>David was angry because the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had burst forth with an outburst upon Uzzah; so that place is called Perez-uzzah,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8166f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> to this day. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>David was afraid of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> that day; he said, “How can the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> come into my care?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>So David was unwilling to take the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> into his care in the city of David; instead David took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>The ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months; and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> blessed Obed-edom and all his household.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>It was told King David, “The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>and when those who bore the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>David danced before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>As the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came into the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and she despised him in her heart.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>They brought in the ark of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and offerings of well-being before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the offerings of well-being, he blessed the people in the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and distributed food among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, to each a cake of bread, a portion of meat,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-8177g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> and a cake of raisins. Then all the people went back to their homes.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ maids, as any vulgar fellow might shamelessly uncover himself!” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>David said to Michal, “It was before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, who chose me in place of your father and all his household, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, that I have danced before the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in my own eyes; but by the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:3">2 Samuel 6:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>and his brother</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:4">2 Samuel 6:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Compare Gk: Heb <i>and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill with the ark of God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:4">2 Samuel 6:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>and his brother</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:5">2 Samuel 6:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Q Ms Gk 1 Chr 13.8: Heb <i>fir trees</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:7">2 Samuel 6:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>1 Chr 13.10 Compare Q Ms: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:8">2 Samuel 6:8</a> <span class='footnote-text'>That is <i>Bursting Out Against Uzzah</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to 2 Samuel 6:19">2 Samuel 6:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Vg: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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