1 David again brought together all the able young men of Israel —thirty thousand.2 He and all his men went to Baalah "in Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the Name, "the name of the LORD Almighty, who is enthroned between the cherubim on the ark.3 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart4 with the ark of God on it, "and Ahio was walking in front of it.5 David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the LORD, with castanets, "harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.7 The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; therefore God struck him down, and he died there beside the ark of God.8 Then David was angry because the LORD's wrath had broken out against Uzzah, and to this day that place is called Perez Uzzah. [^5]9 David was afraid of the LORD that day and said, "How can the ark of the LORD ever come to me?"10 He was not willing to take the ark of the LORD to be with him in the City of David. Instead, he took it to the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.11 The ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months, and the LORD blessed him and his entire household.12 Now King David was told, "The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-Edom and everything he has, because of the ark of God." So David went to bring up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with rejoicing.13 When those who were carrying the ark of the LORD had taken six steps, he sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.14 Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before the LORD with all his might,15 while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.16 As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she despised him in her heart.17 They brought the ark of the LORD and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the LORD.18 After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD Almighty.19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes.20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, "How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!"21 David said to Michal, "It was before the LORD, who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when he appointed me ruler over the LORD's people Israel —I will celebrate before the LORD.22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor."23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

1 Congregavit autem rursum David omnes electos ex Isral, triginta millia. 2 Surrexitque David, et abiit, et universus populus qui erat cum eo de viris Juda, ut adducerent arcam Dei, super quam invocatum est nomen Domini exercituum, sedentis in cherubim super eam. 3 Et imposuerunt arcam Dei super plaustrum novum : tuleruntque eam de domo Abinadab, qui erat in Gabaa : Oza autem et Ahio, filii Abinadab, minabant plaustrum novum. 4 Cumque tulissent eam de domo Abinadab, qui erat in Gabaa, custodiens arcam Dei Ahio prcedebat arcam. 5 David autem et omnis Isral ludebant coram Domino in omnibus lignis fabrefactis, et citharis et lyris et tympanis et sistris et cymbalis. 6 Postquam autem venerunt ad aream Nachon, extendit Oza manum ad arcam Dei, et tenuit eam : quoniam calcitrabant boves, et declinaverunt eam. 7 Iratusque est indignatione Dominus contra Ozam, et percussit eum super temeritate : qui mortuus est ibi juxta arcam Dei. 8 Contristatus est autem David, eo quod percussisset Dominus Ozam, et vocatum est nomen loci illius : Percussio Oz, usque in diem hanc. 9 Et extimuit David Dominum in die illa, dicens : Quomodo ingredietur ad me arca Domini ? 10 Et noluit divertere ad se arcam Domini in civitatem David : sed divertit eam in domum Obededom Gethi. 11 Et habitavit arca Domini in domo Obededom Gethi tribus mensibus : et benedixit Dominus Obededom, et omnem domum ejus.12 Nuntiatumque est regi David quod benedixisset Dominus Obededom, et omnia ejus, propter arcam Dei. Abiit ergo David, et adduxit arcam Dei de domo Obededom in civitatem David cum gaudio : et erant cum David septem chori, et victima vituli. 13 Cumque transcendissent qui portabant arcam Domini sex passus, immolabat bovem et arietem, 14 et David saltabat totis viribus ante Dominum : porro David erat accinctus ephod lineo. 15 Et David et omnis domus Isral ducebant arcam testamenti Domini in jubilo, et in clangore buccin. 16 Cumque intrasset arca Domini in civitatem David, Michol filia Saul, prospiciens per fenestram, vidit regem David subsilientem atque saltantem coram Domino : et despexit eum in corde suo. 17 Et introduxerunt arcam Domini, et imposuerunt eam in loco suo in medio tabernaculi, quod tetenderat ei David : et obtulit David holocausta et pacifica coram Domino. 18 Cumque complesset offerens holocausta et pacifica, benedixit populo in nomine Domini exercituum. 19 Et partitus est univers multitudini Isral tam viro quam mulieri singulis collyridam panis unam, et assaturam bubul carnis unam, et similam frixam oleo : et abiit omnis populus, unusquisque in domum suam.20 Reversusque est David ut benediceret domui su : et egressa Michol filia Saul in occursum David, ait : Quam gloriosus fuit hodie rex Isral discooperiens se ante ancillas servorum suorum, et nudatus est, quasi si nudetur unus de scurris. 21 Dixitque David ad Michol : Ante Dominum, qui elegit me potius quam patrem tuum et quam omnem domum ejus, et prcepit mihi ut essem dux super populum Domini in Isral 22 et Judam, et vilior fiam plus quam factus sum : et ero humilis in oculis meis, et cum ancillis de quibus locuta es, gloriosior apparebo. 23 Igitur Michol fili Saul non est natus filius usque in diem mortis su.