3. They transported the ark of God on a new cart and took it away from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart,
4. with Ahio walking before it,
5. while David and all the house of Israel danced before the Lord with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
6. As they reached the threshing floor of Nodan, Uzzah stretched out his hand to the ark of God and steadied it, for the oxen were tipping it.
7. Then the Lord became angry with Uzzah; God struck him on that spot, and he died there in God’s presence.
8. David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah. Therefore that place has been called Perez-uzzah even to this day.
9. David became frightened of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”
10. So David was unwilling to take the ark of the Lord with him into the City of David. David deposited it instead at the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
11. The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
12. When it was reported to King David that the Lord had blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that he possessed because of the ark of God, David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the City of David with joy.
13. As soon as the bearers of the ark of the Lord had advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.
14. Then David came dancing before the Lord with abandon, girt with a linen ephod.