2 Samuel 6:6-12

6:6 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Nacon, ¹  Uzzah reached out and grabbed hold of ²  the ark of God, ³  because the oxen stumbled. 6:7 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ⁴  he ⁵  killed him on the spot ⁶  for his negligence. ⁷  He died right there beside the ark of God.

6:8 David was angry because the Lord attacked ⁸  Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ⁹  which remains its name to this very day. 6:9 David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?” 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. ¹⁰  6:12 David was told, ¹¹  “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.

[6:6]  ¹ tn 1 Chr 13:9 has “Kidon.”

[6:6]  ² tn Or “steadied.”

[6:6]  ³ tn Heb “and Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and grabbed it.”

[6:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

[6:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “God.”

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

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

[6:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] a breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

[6:8]  ⁹ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

[6:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “house,” both here and in v. 12.

[6:12]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and it was told to David, saying.”