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again assembled together all the chosen men in Israel, thirty thousand. 2 He and all his men set out for Baale-judah to bring up from there the Ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of the Lord of Hosts, who is enthroned between the cherubim. 3 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 4 with the Ark of God on it, from Abinadab’s house on the hill, and Ahio was walking in front of the ark. 5 Meanwhile, David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with musical instruments made of fir wood—with lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
6 When Uzzah and Ahio reached the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand and grasped the Ark of God, because the oxen shook it. 7 Then the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down for his irreverence; and he died there beside the Ark of God.
8 David was angry because the Lord’s wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.
9 David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord ever come to me?” 10 So David was not willing to remove the ark of the Lord to be with him in the City of David; instead David took 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 all his household.
12 Now it was reported to King David: “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and everything belonging to him, 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 rejoicing. 13 When those carrying the ark of the Lord had moved forward six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. 14 David was dancing with all his might before the Lord, and David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 In this way, David and the whole house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sounding of trumpets.
16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul, watched from a window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
17 They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18 When he had finished offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts. 19 Then he distributed food among all the people, to both men and women—the whole multitude of Israel—a loaf of bread, a cake of dates, and a cake of raisins. Then all the people left, each to his own home.
20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and she said to him, “How the king of Israel has honoured himself today! He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects, like any vulgar fellow might shamelessly expose himself!”
21 David answered Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his family, to appoint me ruler over Israel, the people of the Lord. Therefore I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But of these slave girls you spoke about, I will be held in honour.”
23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.