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Uzzah and Ahio were guiding the cart, <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When they arrived at the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of the ark, because the oxen stumbled. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. He died right there before God.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>David was angry because the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So David did not move the ark to the City of David; he left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The ark of God remained in Obed-Edom’s house for three months; the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> blessed Obed-Edom’s family and everything that belonged to him.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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