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Now David and all the house of Israel (A)were celebrating before Yahweh (B)with all kinds of instruments made of [a]fir wood, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.

Then they came to the (C)threshing floor of Nacon. And [b]Uzzah (D)reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, because the oxen nearly upset it. And the anger of Yahweh burned against Uzzah, and (E)God struck him down there for [c]his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:5 Or cypress
  2. 2 Samuel 6:6 Or Uzza, cf. 1 Chr 13:7
  3. 2 Samuel 6:7 Lit the