¹And David took counsel with the commanders of a thousand and of a hundred and with every leader, ²and David said to the whole convocation of Israel, “If it is right in your opinion, and if it is from the Lord our God, let us spread out and send companies to our brothers who remain in all the lands of Israel, and let us send with them the priests and the Levites into the cities of their pasture lands, so that they gather themselves to us. ³And let us recover the ark of our God, because we did not inquire with it in Saul's days.” ⁴And the whole convocation agreed to do this, for the matter was right in the eyes of all the people. ⁵Then David convened the whole of Israel from Shihor in Egypt to the approach to 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, so as to bring up from there the ark of God – of the Lord, who resides between the cherubim – where his name is called on. ⁷And they loaded the ark of God onto a new wagon obtained from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio were driving the wagon. ⁸Now David and all Israel were playing music before God with all their strength, both with singing and on harps and on lutes, and with drums and with cymbals, and with trumpets, ⁹when they came to Chidon's threshing floor, and Uzza stretched out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen were destabilizing it. ¹⁰At this the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him down because he had stretched out his hand on the ark, and he died there before God. ¹¹And it grieved David that the Lord had burst out against Uzza, and he called that place Perez-Uzza, as it is up to this day. ¹²And David feared God^* on that day, and he said, “How will I have the ark of God^* brought to me?” ¹³So David did not have the ark brought to him in the City of David, and he had it diverted to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. ¹⁴So the ark of God remained with the house of Obed-Edom, in his house for three months, and the Lord blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all who belonged to him.