2 Samuel 6:5-14

5David and all Israel's people were singing and dancing with all their strength to praise the Lord. They made music with harps, lyres, tambourines, shakers and cymbals.

6They reached the place of Nacon's threshing floor. There the oxen that were pulling the cart almost fell. So Uzzah reached out to hold God's Covenant Box to stop it falling.

7The Lord was very angry with Uzzah because he did not respect God's rules. He immediately knocked Uzzah down to the ground. Uzzah died there, beside the Covenant Box.

8David was angry because the Lord had punished Uzzah. So he called that place ‘Perez Uzzah’. That is still its name today.

9So David now became afraid of the Lord. He said, ‘The Lord's Covenant Box is too holy to come with me!’

10He no longer wanted to take the Lord's Covenant Box to the City of David to be with him there. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom, who came from Gath.

11The Lord's Covenant Box stayed in Obed-Edom's house for three months. During that time, the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all the people in his house.

12People told King David, ‘The Lord has blessed Obed-Edom's family and everything that belongs to him, because of the Covenant Box.’ So David went back to Obed-Edom's house. He was now happy to bring the Covenant Box from there to the City of David.

13The men who were carrying it walked six steps and they stopped. Then David offered a bull and a fat calf as sacrifices to God.

14David was wearing a linen ephod. He danced with all his strength to worship the Lord.