¹David gathered again all the chosen men in Israel, thirty thousand.

²David rose and went, and all the people who were with him, from Baalah of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, the name of Yahweh of hosts, who dwells on the cherubim upon it.

³They placed the ark of God upon a new cart, and carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart.

⁴They carried it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, with the ark of God; and Ahio was walking before the face of the ark.

⁵David and all the house of Israel were playing before the face of Yahweh with all kinds of cypress wood, and with lyres and with harps and with tambourines and with rattles and with cymbals.

⁶They came to the threshing floor of Nacon, and Uzzah reached out to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the cattle had let it drop.

⁷The anger of Yahweh burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for the recklessness, and he died there beside the ark of God.

⁸David burned with anger, because Yahweh had burst open a breach against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez-uzzah to this day.

⁹David feared Yahweh on that day, and said, How will the ark of Yahweh come to me?

¹⁰David was not willing to remove the ark of Yahweh to himself, to the city of David; and David turned it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

¹¹The ark of Yahweh dwelled in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and Yahweh blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

¹²It was told to the king David, saying, Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with gladness.

¹³It happened, when the bearers of the ark of Yahweh had stepped six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

¹⁴David danced with all his strength before the face of Yahweh, and David was girded with an ephod of linen.

¹⁵David and all the house of Israel were bringing up the ark of Yahweh with shouting and with the sound of a horn.

¹⁶It happened, as the ark of Yahweh came into the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the face of Yahweh, and she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷They brought the ark of Yahweh and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered up burnt offerings before the face of Yahweh, and peace offerings.

¹⁸David finished offering up the burnt offering and the peace offerings, and blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of hosts.

¹⁹He distributed to all the people, to the whole multitude of Israel, from man to woman, to each man one cake of bread, one measured portion, and one raisin-cake; and all the people went, each man to his house.

²⁰David returned to bless his household, and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, How honored the king of Israel has made himself today, who uncovered himself today before the eyes of the maidservants of his slaves, as one of the empty ones completely uncovers himself!

²¹David said to Michal, Before the face of Yahweh, who chose me over your father and over all his household, to charge me as ruler over the people of Yahweh, over Israel—and I will play before the face of Yahweh.

²²I will be lightly esteemed even more than this, and I will be low in my own eyes; but with the maidservants of whom you spoke, with them I will be honored.

²³And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death.