1. Once again David assembled the select warriors of Israel, thirty thousand strong.
2. David and all the troops who were with him set out for Baalah, which is Kiriath-jearim of Judah, to bring God’s chest up from there—the chest that is called by the name of the Lord of heavenly forces, who sits enthroned on the winged creatures.
3. They loaded God’s chest on a new cart and carried it from Abinadab’s house, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, Abinadab’s sons, were driving the new cart.
4. Uzzah was beside God’s chest while Ahio was walking in front of it.
5. Meanwhile, David and the entire house of Israel celebrated in the Lord’s presence with all their strength, with songs, zithers, harps, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.
6. When they approached Nacon’s threshing floor, Uzzah reached out to God’s chest and grabbed it because the oxen had stumbled.
7. The Lord became angry at Uzzah, and God struck him there because of his mistake, and he died there next to God’s chest.
8. Then David got angry because the Lord’s anger lashed out against Uzzah, and so that place is called Perez-uzzah today.
9. David was frightened by the Lord that day. "How will I ever bring the Lord’s chest to me?" he asked.
10. So David didn’t take the chest away with him to David’s City. Instead, he had it put in the house of Obed-edom, who was from Gath.
11. The Lord’s chest stayed with Obed-edom’s household in Gath for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom’s household and all that he had.
12. King David was told, "The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s family and everything he has because of God’s chest being there." So David went and brought God’s chest up from Obed-edom’s house to David’s City with celebration.
13. Whenever those bearing the chest advanced six steps, David sacrificed an ox and a fatling calf.