2 Samuel 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel: thirty thousand.

² And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up the Ark of God from there, whose name comes from the Name of the LORD of Hosts, Who dwells upon it between the Cherubim.

³ And they put the Ark of God upon a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

⁴ And when they brought the Ark of God out of the house of Abinadab that was at Gibeah, Ahio went before the Ark.

⁵ And David and all the House of Israel played before the LORD on all instruments made of fir, and on harps, and on psalteries, and on tambourines, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

⁶ And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put his hand on the Ark of God and held it. For the oxen shook it.

⁷ And the LORD was very angry with Uzzah. And God struck him in that same place for his fault. And there he died, by the Ark of God.

⁸ And David was displeased because the LORD had stricken Uzzah. And he called the name of the place “Perez Uzzah” until this day.

⁹ Therefore, David feared the LORD that day, and said, “How shall the Ark of the LORD come to me?”

¹⁰ So David would not bring the Ark of the LORD to him into the City of David. But David carried it into the house of Obed-Edom, a Gittite.

¹¹ And the Ark of the LORD stayed in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. And the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

¹² And someone told King David, saying, “The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that he has, because of the Ark of God.” Therefore, David went and brought the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom into the City of David with gladness.

¹³ And when those who bore the Ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he offered an ox and a fat beast.

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

¹⁵ So David and all the House of Israel brought the Ark of the LORD with shouting and sound of trumpet.

¹⁶ And as the Ark of the LORD came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leap and dance before the LORD. And she despised him in her heart.

¹⁷ And when they had brought in the Ark of the LORD, they set it in its place, in the midst of the Tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered Burnt Offerings, and Peace Offerings before the LORD.

¹⁸ And as soon as David had finished offering Burnt Offerings and Peace Offerings, he blessed the people in the Name of the LORD of Hosts,

¹⁹ and gave among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, to the women as well as the men, to everyone, a cake of bread and a piece of flesh and a bottle. So, all the people departed, each one to his house.

²⁰ Then David returned to bless his house. And Michal, the daughter of Saul, came out to meet David, and said, “O how glorious was the king of Israel this day, who was uncovered today in the eyes of the maidens of his servants, as a fool uncovers himself!”

²¹ Then David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, Who chose me rather than your father and all his house, and Commanded me to be ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel. And therefore, I will play before the LORD,

²² and will be even more vile than this and will be humble in my own sight. But by the very same maidservants which you have spoken of, I shall be had in honor.”

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