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David and all Israel were celebrating in Elohim’s presence with all their might, with songs, with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

But when they came to Chidon’s threshing floor,[a] the oxen stumbled. So Uzzah reached out to grab the ark. 10 Yahweh became angry with Uzzah and killed him for reaching for the ark. He died in Elohim’s presence.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 13:9 A threshing floor is an outdoor area where grain is separated from its husks.

David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.(A)

When they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 10 The Lord’s anger(B) burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down(C) because he had put his hand on the ark. So he died there before God.

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