¹And David took counsel with the officials of the thousands and the hundreds, with every leader.

²And David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and it is from Yahweh our God, let us spread out and send out to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, and with them the priests and the Levites in the cities of their pasture lands, that they may gather to us.

³And let us bring over the ark of our God to us, for we did not seek it in the days of Saul."

⁴And all the assembly said to do so, for the word was pleasing in the eyes of all the people.

⁵So David gathered all Israel, from the Shihor of Egypt as far as the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

⁶And David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, Yahweh, who dwells over the cherubim, where the name is called.

⁷And they mounted the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzzah and Ahio were driving the cart.

⁸And David and all Israel were laughing before the face of God with all their strength, and with songs, and with lyres, and with harps, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

⁹And they came to the threshing floor of Kidon, and Uzzah stretched out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen jostled it.

¹⁰And the anger of Yahweh burned against Uzzah, and he struck him down because he had stretched out his hand on the ark; and he died there before the face of God.

¹¹And David burned with anger, because Yahweh had broken out a breach against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-Uzzah, to this day.

¹²And David feared God on that day, saying, "How shall I bring the ark of God to me?"

¹³And David did not remove the ark to himself, to the city of David, but turned it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

¹⁴And the ark of God dwelled with the house of Obed-edom, in his house, three months; and Yahweh blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belonged to him.