2 Samuel
6
- David again brought together out of Israel
chosen men, thirty thousand in all.
- He and all his men set out from Baalah of
Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name,
the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim that
are on the ark.
- They set the ark of God on a new cart and
brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio,
sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart
- with the ark of God on it, and Ahio was
walking in front of it.
- David and the whole house of Israel were
celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with songs and with harps,
lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals.
- When they came to the threshing floor of
Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen
stumbled.
- The LORD'S anger burned against Uzzah because
of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down and he died there beside
the ark of God.
- Then David was angry because the LORD'S
wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez
Uzzah.
- David was afraid of the LORD that day and
said, "How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me ?"
- He was not willing to take the ark of the
LORD to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it aside to the
house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.
- The ark of the LORD remained in the house
of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and his
entire household.
- Now King David was told, "The LORD
has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the
ark of God." So David went down and brought up the ark of God from the
house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.
- When those who were carrying the ark of
the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
- David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before
the LORD with all his might,
- while he and the entire house of Israel
brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.
- As the ark of the LORD was entering the
City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she
saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her
heart.
- They brought the ark of the LORD and set
it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed
burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
- After he had finished sacrificing the burnt
offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the
LORD Almighty.
- Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of
dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites,
both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.
- When David returned home to bless his household,
Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, "How the king
of Israel has distinguished himself today, disrobing in the sight of the slave
girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would !"
- David said to Michal, "It was before
the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when
he appointed me ruler over the LORD'S people Israel -- I will celebrate before
the LORD.
- I will become even more undignified than
this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you
spoke of, I will be held in honor."
- And Michal daughter of Saul had no children
to the day of her death.
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