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1 Chronicles 13

¹David consulted with the captains of the thousands and the hundreds, even with every leader.

²David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is from the LORD our God, let us send word everywhere to our fellow countrymen who remain in all the land of Israel, and to the priests and Levites who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, so that they may meet with us;

³and let us bring back the ark of our God to us,[1] for we did not seek it during the days of Saul."

⁴Then all the assembly agreed to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

⁵So David gathered all Israel together, from the Shihor [watercourse] of Egypt, to the entrance of Hamath [in the north], to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

⁶David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God the LORD who sits enthroned above the cherubim, the ark which is called by His name.

⁷They[2] carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio [his brother] drove the cart.

⁸David and all Israel celebrated [joyfully] before God with all their might, with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

⁹When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold and steady the ark, for the oxen [that were drawing the cart][3] nearly overturned it.

¹⁰The anger of the LORD burned against Uzza, and He struck him down because he touched the ark; and there he died before God.

¹¹David became angry because of the Lord's outburst against Uzza; so that place is called[4] Perez-uzza to this day.

¹²David was afraid of God that day, and he said, "How can I bring the ark of God home with me?"

¹³So David did not bring the ark with him to the City of David, but took it aside to the house of[5] Obed-edom the Gittite.

¹⁴So the ark of God remained with the[6] family of Obed-edom in his house three months; and the LORD[7] blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that he had.