Shmuel II - Chapter 6

1. And David continued [to gather] all the chosen of Israel, thirty thousand.

2. And David arose and went with all the people that were with him, from Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called a name, the name of the Lord of Hosts who dwell upon the cherubim [being] upon it.

3. And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and they carried it from the house of Avinadav that was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Avinadav, drove the new cart.

4. And they brought it out of the house of Avinadav, which was on the hill, with the ark of God, and Achyo went before the ark.

5. And David and all the house of Israel made merry with all [manner of instruments of] cypress wood, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with sistra, and with cymbals.

6. And they came to Goren-nachon, and Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and grasped hold of it, for the oxen swayed it.

7. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him down there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

8. And David was angered, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah; and he called that place Peretz-uzzah, unto this day.

9. And David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said: 'How can the ark of the Lord come to me?'

10. And David did not want to remove unto him the ark of the Lord, into the city of David; and David took it aside to the house of Oved-edom the Gittite.

11. And the ark of the Lord dwelled in the house of Oved-edom the Gittite three months; and the Lord blessed Oved-edom, and all his household.

12. And it was told to King David saying: 'The Lord has blessed the house of Oved-edom, and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of the Lord. And David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Oved-edom into the city of David with joy.

13. And it was when the bearers of the ark of God had trodden six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

14. And David danced with all his might before the Lord; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

15. And David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of [the] shofar.

16. And [as] the ark of the Lord came [into] the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul peered through the window, and she saw the king David hopping and dancing before the Lord; and she loathed him in her heart.

17. And they brought the ark of the Lord, and they set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt-offerings before the Lord and peace-offerings.

18. And David finished offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, and he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of Hosts.

19. And he distributed to all the people, to the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to each individual a loaf of bread, and a portion of meat, and a barrel of wine. And all the people departed, every one to his home.

20. And David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and she said, "How honored was today the king of Israel, who exposed himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as would expose himself one of the idlers."

21. And David said unto Michal; "Before the Lord, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of the Lord, over Israel; therefore I have made merry before the Lord.

22. And if I be demeaned more than this, and be abashed in mine own eyes, [yet] of the maidservants of which you have spoken, with them will I get me honor."

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