2 Samuel 8:9-11

8:9 When King Toi ¹  of Hamath heard that David had defeated the entire army of Hadadezer, 8:10 he ²  sent his son Joram ³  to King David to extend his best wishes ⁴  and to pronounce a blessing on him for his victory over Hadadezer, for Toi had been at war with Hadadezer. ⁵  He brought with him various items made of silver, gold, and bronze. ⁶  8:11 King David dedicated these things to the Lord, ⁷  along with the dedicated silver and gold that he had taken from ⁸  all the nations that he had subdued,

1 Tawarikh 13:9-11

13:9 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of ⁹  the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ¹⁰  he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. ¹¹  He died right there before God. ¹² 

13:11 David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; ¹³  so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ¹⁴  which remains its name to this very day.

[8:9]  ¹ tn The name is spelled “Tou” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:9. NIV adopts the spelling “Tou” here.

[8:10]  ² tn Heb “Toi.” The proper name has been replaced by the pronoun in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:10]  ³ tn The name appears as “Hadoram” in the parallel text in 1 Chr 18:10.

[8:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “to ask concerning him for peace.”

[8:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “and to bless him because he fought with Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer was a man of battles with Toi.”

[8:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and in his hand were items of silver and items of gold and items of bronze.”

[8:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “also them King David made holy to the Lord.”

[8:11]  ⁸ tn Heb “with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from.”

[13:9]  ⁹ tn Or “to steady.”

[13:10]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

[13:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”

[13:10]  ¹² sn The modern reader might think God seemed to overreact here, but Israel needed a vivid object lesson of God’s holiness. By loading the ark on a cart, David had violated the instructions in God’s law (Exod 25:12-14; Num 4:5-6, 15). Uzzah’s action, however innocent it may seem, betrayed a certain lack of reverence for God’s presence. God had to remind his people that his holiness could not under any circumstances be violated.

[13:11]  ¹³ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

[13:11]  ¹⁴ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”