2 Samuel 6:6-16

6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakhon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled.

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

8 David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth on Uzzah; and he called that place Peretz-Uzzah, to this day.

9 David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, How shall the ark of the LORD come to me?

10 So David would not remove the ark of the LORD to him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of `Oved-'Edom the Gittite.

11 The ark of the LORD remained in the house of `Oved-'Edom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed `Oved-'Edom, and all his house.

12 It was told king David, saying, the LORD has blessed the house of `Oved-'Edom, and all that pertains to him, because of the ark of God. David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of `Oved-'Edom into the city of David with joy.

13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

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

15 So David and all the house of Yisra'el brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the shofar.

16 It was so, as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, that Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul looked out at the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

2 Samuel 6:6-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO SECOND SAMUEL 6

In this chapter we are told that David fetched the ark from Baale of Judah, with an intent to bring it to his own city, 2Sa 6:1-5; but Uzzah being smitten for his error concerning it, David was displeased, and left it at the house of Obededom, where it remained three months, and proved a blessing to his house, 2Sa 6:6-11; which David hearing of, went and brought it from thence with great expressions of joy before it as it came along, and offered offerings to the Lord at the setting it in its place, and gave gifts to the people, 2Sa 6:12-19; but Michal his wife was displeased with some of his gestures on that occasion, which made some difference between them, and which, on Michal's part, was resented by the Lord himself; for she became barren for it to the time of her death, 2Sa 6:20-23.