1 Tawarikh 13:10-11

13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, ¹  he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. ²  He died right there before God. ³ 

13:11 David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; ⁴  so he called that place Perez Uzzah, ⁵  which remains its name to this very day.

1 Tawarikh 13:2

13:2 David said to the whole Israelite assembly, “If you so desire and the Lord our God approves, ⁶  let’s spread the word ⁷  to our brothers who remain in all the regions of Israel, and to the priests and Levites in their cities, ⁸  so they may join us.

1 Samuel 6:7-8

6:7 So now go and make a new cart. Get two cows that have calves and that have never had a yoke placed on them. Harness the cows to the cart and take their calves from them back to their stalls. 6:8 Then take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart, and put in a chest beside it the gold objects you are sending to him as a guilt offering. You should then send it on its way.

[13:10]  ¹ tn Heb “and the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah.”

[13:10]  ² tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”

[13:10]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “because the Lord broke out [with] breaking out [i.e., an outburst] against Uzzah.”

[13:11]  ⁵ sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”

[13:2]  ⁶ tn Heb “If to you [it is] good and from the Lord our God.”

[13:2]  ⁷ tn Heb “let us spread and let us send.” The words “the word” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

[13:2]  ⁸ tn Heb “in the cities of their pasturelands.”