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13:5 So David <01732> assembled <06950> all <03605> Israel <03478> from <04480> the Shihor River <07883> in Egypt <04714> to <05704> Lebo Hamath <02574>, to bring <0935> the ark <0727> of God <0430> from Kiriath Jearim <07157>. 13:6 David <01732> and all <03605> Israel <03478> went up <05927> to <0413> Baalah <01173> (that <0834> is, Kiriath Jearim <07157>) in Judah <03063> to bring up <05927> from there <08033> the ark <0727> of God <0430> the Lord <03068>, who sits <03427> enthroned between the cherubim <03742>– the ark that <0834> is called <07121> by his name <08034>. 13:7 They transported <07392> the ark <0430> <0727> on <05921> a new <02319> cart <05699> from the house <01004> of Abinadab <041>; Uzzah <05798> and Ahio <0283> were guiding <05090> the cart <05699>, 13:8 while David <01732> and all <03605> Israel <03478> were energetically <05797> celebrating <07832> before <06440> God <0430>, singing <07892> and playing various <03605> stringed instruments <05035> <03658>, tambourines <08596>, cymbals <04700>, and trumpets <02689>. 13:9 When <05704> they arrived <0935> at the threshing floor <01637> of Kidon <03592>, Uzzah <05798> reached out <07971> his hand <03027> to take hold <0270> of the ark <0727>, because <03588> the oxen <01241> stumbled <08058>. 13:10 The Lord <03068> was so furious <0639> <02734> with Uzzah <05798>, he killed <05221> him, because <0834> <05921> he reached out <07971> his hand <03027> and touched <05921> the ark <0727>. He died <04191> right there <08033> before <06440> God <0430>. 13:11 David <01732> was angry <02734> because <03588> the Lord <03068> attacked <06556> <06555> Uzzah <05798>; so he called <07121> that place <04725> Perez Uzzah <06560>, which remains <05704> its name to this <02088> very day <03117>. 13:12 David <01732> was afraid <03372> of God <0430> that day <03117> and said <0559>, “How <01963> will I ever be able to bring <0935> the ark <0727> of God <0430> up <0413> here?” 13:13 So David <01732> did not <03808> move <05493> the ark <0727> to <0413> the City <05892> of David <01732>; he left <05186> it in <0413> the house <01004> of Obed-Edom <05654> the Gittite <01663>. 13:14 The ark <0727> of God <0430> remained <03427> in <05973> Obed-Edom’s <05654> house <01004> for three <07969> months <02320>; the Lord <03068> blessed <01288> Obed-Edom’s <05654> family <01004> and everything <03605> that <0834> belonged to him.

• 1Ch 13:1-14 -- Uzzah Meets Disaster

• Uzzah

  [ebd] strength, a son of Abinadab, in whose house the men of Kirjath-jearim placed the ark when it was brought back from the land of the Philistines (1 Sam. 7:1). He with his brother Ahio drove the cart on which the ark was placed...
  [nave] UZZAH 1. Called also Uzza, son of Abinadab. Driver of the cart in moving the ark, 2 Sam. 6:3; 1 Chr. 13:7. Stricken dead for touching the ark, 2 Sam. 6:6-8; 1 Chr. 13:9-11. 2. See: Uzza, 2.
  

• UZZA; UZZAH

  [isbe] UZZA; UZZAH - uz'-a, uz'-a ('uzzah (2 Sam 6:6-8), otherwise `uzza' meaning uncertain): (1) One of those who accompanied the ark on its journey from Kiriath-jearim toward David's citadel (2 Sam 6:3-8, "Uzzah" = 1 Ch 13:7-11, ...
  

• UZZA, OR UZZAH

  [smith] (strength), one of the sons of Abinadab, in whose house at Kirjath-jearim the ark rested for twenty years. Uzzah probably was the second and Ahio the third. They both accompanied its removal when David first undertook to carr...
  

• UZZA

  [smith] (strength). A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. (1 Chronicles 8:7) (B.C. 1445.) Elsewhere called UZZA, OR UZZAH. (1 Chronicles 13:7,9,10,11) [UZZA, OR UZZAH] The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned wit...
  

• SHIHOR

  [ebd] dark, (1 Chr. 13:5), the southwestern boundary of Canaan, the Wady el-'Arish. (See SIHOR; NILE.)
  [isbe] SHIHOR - shi'-hor (shichor, also written without a yodh (y) and waw (w) in Hebrew and incorrectly "Sihor" in English): A stream of water mentioned in connection with Egypt. Joshua (13:3) speaks of the "Shihor, which is befor...
  

• Obed-edom

  [isbe] OBED-EDOM - o'-bed-e'-dom (`obhedh 'edhowm (2 Ch 25:24), `obhedd 'edhom (2 Sam 6:10; 1 Ch 13:13,14; 15:25), but elsewhere without hyphen, "servant of (god) Edom"; so W. R. Smith, Religion of Semites (2), 42, and H. P. Smith,...
  [nave] OBED-EDOM 1. Korhite Levite. Doorkeeper of the ark, 1 Chr. 15:18, 24; 26:4-8. David leaves ark with, 2 Sam. 6:10; 1 Chr. 13:13, 14. Ark removed from, 2 Sam. 6:12; 1 Chr. 15:25. Appointed to sound with harps, 1 Chr. 15:21....
  

• Nachon

  [ebd] prepared, the owner of a thrashing-floor near which Uzzah was slain (2 Sam. 6:6); called also Chidon (1 Chr. 13:9).
  [nave] NACHON, called also Chidon. Uzzah slain at the threshing floor of, 2 Sam. 6:6, 7; 1 Chr. 13:9.
  

• Music, Instrumental

  [ebd] Among instruments of music used by the Hebrews a principal place is given to stringed instruments. These were, (1.) The kinnor, the "harp." (2.) The nebel, "a skin bottle," rendered "psaltery." (3.) The sabbeka, or "sackbut,...
  

• Kirjath-jearim

  [nave] KIRJATH-JEARIM, called also Baalah, one of the four cities of the Gibeonites. Inhabitants of, not killed, on account of the covenant made by the Israelites with the Gibeonites, but put under servitude, Josh. 9:17, with verses...
  

• KIRJATHJEARIM

  [smith] (the city of forests), first mentioned as one of the four cities of the Gibeonites, (Joshua 9:17) it next occurs as one of the landmarks of the northern boundary of Judah, ch (Joshua 15:9) and as the point at which the wester...
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• FIR; FIR-TREE

  [isbe] FIR; FIR-TREE - fur, (the Revised Version, margin "cypress"; berosh, 2 Sam 6:5; 1 Ki 5:8,10, etc.; (berothem (plural only), an Aramaic form, Song 1:17): 1. Old Testament References: This tree was one of the chief trees of Le...
  

• David

  [isbe] DAVID - da'-vid (dawidh, or dawidh, "beloved"; Daueid, also in New Testament, Dauid, Dabid; see Thayer's Lexicon): I. NAME AND GENEALOGY II. EARLY YEARS 1. Shepherd 2. Slinger 3. Harpist 4. Poet 5. Psalmist 6. Tribesman III....
  [nave] DAVID 1. King of Israel. Genealogy of, Ruth 4:18-22; 1 Sam. 16:11; 17:12; 1 Chr. 2:3-15; Matt. 1:1-6; Luke 3:31-38. A shepherd, 1 Sam. 16:11. Kills a lion and a bear, 1 Sam. 17:34-36. Anointed king, while a youth, by the ...
  

• Cymbals

  [ebd] (Heb. tzeltzelim, from a root meaning to "tinkle"), musical instruments, consisting of two convex pieces of brass one held in each hand, which were clashed together to produce a loud clanging sound; castanets; "loud cymbals....
  

• Chronicles, Books of

  [ebd] The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e., "Acts of the Days." This title was rendered by Jerome in his Latin version "Chronicon," and hence "Chronicles." In the Sep...
  

• CHIDON, THE THRESHING-FLOOR OF

  [isbe] CHIDON, THE THRESHING-FLOOR OF - ki'-don, (goren kidhon; Septuagint B, omits; A has Cheilo): The place where Uzza perished because he touched the ark (1 Ch 13:9). In 2 Sam 6:6 it is called the threshing-floor of Nachon. No n...
  

• CART

  [isbe] CART - kart (`aghalah): The Hebrew word has been translated in some passages "cart," and in others "wagon." In one verse only has it been translated "chariot." The context of the various passages indicates that a distinction...
  

• Baale of Judah

  [ebd] lords of Judah, a city in the tribe of Judah from which David brought the ark into Jerusalem (2 Sam. 6:2). Elsewhere (1 Chr. 13:6) called Kirjath-jearim. (See BAALAH.)
  

• BAALAH

  [ebd] mistress; city. (1.) A city in the south of Judah (Josh. 15:29), elsewhere called Balah (Josh. 19:3) and Bilhah (1 Chr. 4:29). Now Khurbet Zebalah. (2.) A city on the northern border of the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:10), call...
  [isbe] BAALAH - ba'-a-la ba`alah; "possessor," "mistress "): Three occurrences of this name: (1) = KIRIATH-JEARIM (which see) (Josh 15:9,10; 1 Ch 13:6). (2) A city in the Negeb of Judah (Josh 15:29). In Josh 19:3 Balah and in 1 Ch ...
  

• ABIATHAR

  [isbe] ABIATHAR - a-bi'-a-thar, ab-i-a'-thar ('ebhyathar, "father of super-excellence," or, "the super-excellent one is father." With changed phraseology these are the explanations commonly given, though "a father remains" would be...
  

• The Ark Brought to Zion

  

• What Was the Real Sin of Uzzah?
  The sin of Uzzah (I Chron. 13:9,10) and its sudden punishment have been a subject of much discussion. None but priests of Aaron's family (that is, of the priest's household) were permitted to touch the Ark. Uzzah was of a Lev...

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