1 Chronicles 13

¹ David conferred with the commanders of the thousands and the hundreds, in fact with al the leaders.

² Then, to the whole assembly of Israel, David said, 'If this has your approval, and if Yahweh our Godwil s it so, we shal send messengers to the rest of our brothers throughout the territories of Israel, and also tothe priests and Levites in their towns and pasture lands, bidding them join us.

³ And then we will go and recover the ark of our God, for in the days of Saul we neglected to do it.'

⁴ The whole assembly agreed to this, because al the people thought that this was the right thing to do.

⁵ So David summoned al Israel from the Shihor of Egypt to the Pass of Hamath, to bring the ark of Godfrom Kiriath-Jearim.

⁶ David and al Israel then went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-Jearim in Judah, from there to bring up the arkof God, which bears the title 'Yahweh enthroned on the winged creatures'.

⁷ They transported the ark of God out of Abinadab's house on a new cart. Uzzah and Ahio drove thecart.

⁸ David and al Israel danced before God with al their might, singing to the accompaniment of harps,lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.

⁹ When they came to the threshing-floor of the Javelin, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark,as the oxen were making it tilt.

¹⁰ This roused Yahweh's anger against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had laid his handon the Ark, and there he died before God.

¹¹ David resented Yahweh's having broken out against Uzzah, and the place was given the namePerez-Uzzah, which it stil has today.

¹² That day David felt afraid of God. 'How can I bring the ark of God to be with me?' he said.

¹³ So David did not take the ark with him into the City of David but had it put in the house of Obed-Edom of Gath.

¹⁴ The ark of God remained with Obed-Edom, in his house, for three months, and Yahweh blessedObed-Edom's family and everything that belonged to him.