2 Samuel 6:4

6:4 They brought ¹  it with the ark of God up from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Ahio was walking in front of the ark,

2 Samuel 6:9

6:9 David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”

2 Samuel 6:13

6:13 Those who carried the ark of the Lord took six steps and then David ²  sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.

2 Samuel 6:15

6:15 David and all Israel ³  were bringing up the ark of the Lord, shouting and blowing trumpets. ⁴ 

2 Samuel 15:29

15:29 So Zadok and Abiathar took the ark of God back to Jerusalem and remained there.

2 Samuel 6:12

6:12 David was told, ⁵  “The Lord has blessed the family of Obed-Edom and everything he owns because of the ark of God.” So David went and joyfully brought the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David.

2 Samuel 15:24

15:24 Zadok and all the Levites who were with him were carrying the ark of the covenant of God. When they positioned the ark of God, Abiathar offered sacrifices until all the people had finished leaving ⁶  the city.

2 Samuel 6:6-7

6:6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ⁷  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ⁸  the ark of God, ⁹  because the oxen stumbled. 6:7 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ¹⁰  he ¹¹  killed him on the spot ¹²  for his negligence. ¹³  He died right there beside the ark of God.

2 Samuel 6:10-11

6:10 So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 6:11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family. ¹⁴ 

2 Samuel 15:25

15:25 Then the king said to Zadok, “Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the Lord’s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

2 Samuel 6:2-3

6:2 David and all the men who were with him traveled ¹⁵  to ¹⁶  Baalah ¹⁷  in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the name ¹⁸  of the Lord of hosts, who sits enthroned between the cherubim that are on it. 6:3 They loaded the ark of God on a new cart and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart.

2 Samuel 6:16-17

6:16 As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him. ¹⁹  6:17 They brought the ark of the Lord and put it in its place ²⁰  in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it. Then David offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before the Lord.

[6:4]  ¹ tn Heb “lifted.”

[6:13]  ² tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[6:15]  ³ tc Heb “all the house of Israel.” A few medieval Hebrew mss and the Syriac Peshitta lack the words “the house.”

[6:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “the shophar” (the ram’s horn trumpet).

[6:12]  ⁴ tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”

[15:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “crossing from.”

[6:6]  ⁶ tn 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”

[6:6]  ⁷ tn Or “steadied.”

[6:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”

[6:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

[6:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “God.”

[6:7]  ⁹ tc Heb “there.” Since this same term occurs later in the verse it is translated “on the spot” here for stylistic reasons.

[6:7]  ¹⁰ tc The phrase “his negligence” is absent from the LXX.

[6:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[6:2]  ⁹ tn Heb “arose and went.”

[6:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “from,” but the following context indicates they traveled to this location.

[6:2]  ¹¹ tn This is another name for Kiriath-jearim (see 1 Chr 13:6).

[6:2]  ¹² tc The MT has here a double reference to the name (שֵׁם שֵׁם, shem shem). Many medieval Hebrew mss in the first occurrence point the word differently and read the adverb שָׁם (sham, “there”). This is also the understanding of the Syriac Peshitta (Syr., taman). While this yields an acceptable understanding to the text, it is more likely that the MT dittographic here. The present translation therefore reads שֵׁם only once.

[6:16]  ¹⁰ tn The Hebrew text adds “in her heart.” Cf. CEV “she was disgusted (+ with him TEV)”; NLT “was filled with contempt for him”; NCV “she hated him.”

[6:17]  ¹¹ tc The Syriac Peshitta lacks “in its place.”