2 Samuel 6
1 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel: thirty thousand.
2 David set out with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, over which the name is invoked—the name of the LORD of Armies, who sits enthroned between the cherubim.
3 They placed the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, guided the new cart.
4 They brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, with the ark of God, and Ahio went ahead of the ark.
5 David and all the house of Israel celebrated before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with lyres, harps, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and caught hold of it, because the oxen had stumbled.
7 The anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error. He died there beside the ark of God.
8 David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah, and he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
9 That day David feared the LORD and said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?”
10 David was unwilling to bring the ark of the LORD to himself in the City of David, so he diverted it to 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 his whole household.
12 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 and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the City of David with joy.
13 When those carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
14 David danced with all his might before the LORD, wearing a linen ephod.
15 David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with joyful shouts and the sound of a trumpet.
16 As the ark of the LORD entered the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
17 They brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it. David offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.
18 When he had finished offering the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, David blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Armies.
19 He distributed to all the people, to the whole multitude of Israel, men and women alike, a loaf of bread, a portion of meat, and a raisin cake for each person. Then all the people went home, each to their own house.
20 David returned to bless his household. Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself in full view of his servants’ slave women, as some vulgar man might uncover himself without shame!”
21 David answered Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his household, and appointed me leader over the people of the LORD, over Israel. Yes, I will celebrate before the LORD.
22 I will humble myself even more than this, and I will be low in my own eyes. But among the slave women you spoke of, I will be honored by them.”
23 Michal daughter of Saul had no children until the day she died.
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