King James Version

1 And David added thirty thousand young men of Israel. 2 And David arose and went, and all the people who were with him, from the leaders of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name, the name of the Lord of hosts, who sits upon the cherubim. 3 And they carried the ark of God on a new cart, and they brought it from the house of Abinadab which is on the hill, and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. 4 And they carried him from the house of Abinadab, which was in Gibeah, with the ark of God, and his brother went before the ark. 5 And David and all the house of Israel were playing before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments and with lyres and with harps and with tambourines and with cymbals. 6 And they came to the threshing floor of Nahon, and Uzzah sent to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and He struck him there, and he died there with the Ark of God. 8 And David was angry because the Lord had broken through with a breakthrough in Uzzah, and he called that place Peretz Uzzah to this day. 9 And David feared the Lord on that day and said, "How can the ark of the Lord come to me?" 10 But David did not wish to remove the Ark of the LORD to the city of David; instead, David turned it aside to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 And the Ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-Edom and all his household. 12 And it was told to King David, saying, "Blessed be the Lord who has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him for the sake of the Ark of God." And David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David with joy. 13 And it happened that when the bearers of the Ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. 14 And David was leaping with all his might before the Lord, and David was clothed with a linen ephod. 15 And David and all the house of Israel bring up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, and Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought the Ark of the Lord and 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 every multitude of Israel, from man to woman, a portion of one loaf of bread and one cake of figs and one flagon of wine, and all the people went, each man to his house. 20 And David returned to bless his household, and Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, "How the king of Israel has honored himself today, uncovering himself in the eyes of his servants, as one of the empty fellows uncovers himself!" 21 And David said to Michal, "Before the LORD, who chose me instead of your father and from all his house, to appoint me as ruler over the people of the LORD, over Israel, and I will dance before the LORD." 22 And I will be even more humbled than this, and I will be low in my own eyes, and with the maidservants whom you have spoken about, I will be honored. 23 And to Michal, the daughter of Saul, there was no child for her until the day of her death.