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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>2 Samuel 6 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_samuel/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_samuel/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</a> > 2 Samuel 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_samuel/5.htm" title="2 Samuel 5">◄</a> 2 Samuel 6 <a href="../2_samuel/7.htm" title="2 Samuel 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_samuel/6.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">The Ark Brought to Jerusalem</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>David again brought together all the able young men of Israel—thirty thousand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He and all his men went to Baalah <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, Kiriath Jearim (see 1 Chron. 13:6)">a</a></sup></span> in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate do not have the Name.">b</a></sup></span> the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>with the ark of God on it, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text cart 4 and they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill">c</a></sup></span> and Ahio was walking in front of it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, with castanets, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs">d</a></sup></span> harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The <span class="name">Lord</span>’s anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then David was angry because the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Perez Uzzah means outbreak against Uzzah.">e</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>David was afraid of the <span class="name">Lord</span> that day and said, “How can the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> ever come to me?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He was not willing to take the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>The ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the <span class="name">Lord</span> blessed him and his entire household.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now King David was told, “The <span class="name">Lord</span> has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God.” So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When those who were carrying the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the <span class="name">Lord</span> with all his might, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> with shouts and the sound of trumpets.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>As the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, she despised him in her heart.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>They brought the ark of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, “How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>David said to Michal, “It was before the <span class="name">Lord</span>, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the <span class="name">Lord</span>’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_samuel/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, Kiriath Jearim (see 1 Chron. 13:6)</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">2</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew; Septuagint and Vulgate do not have <i>the Name.</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text <i>cart <span class="fnref">4</span>and they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> <span class="footnotebot">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) <i>songs</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot"><i>Perez Uzzah</i> means <i>outbreak against Uzzah.</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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