1 Tawarikh 13:8-14
Konteks13:8 while David and all Israel were energetically 1 celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, 2 tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. 13:9 When they arrived at the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of 3 the ark, because the oxen stumbled. 13:10 The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, 4 he killed him, because he reached out his hand and touched the ark. 5 He died right there before God. 6
13:11 David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; 7 so he called that place Perez Uzzah, 8 which remains its name to this very day. 13:12 David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?” 13:13 So David did not move the ark to the City of David; 9 he left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 13:14 The ark of God remained in Obed-Edom’s house for three months; the Lord blessed Obed-Edom’s family and everything that belonged to him.
[13:8] 1 tn Heb “with all strength.”
[13:8] 2 tn Heb “with songs and with zithers [meaning uncertain] and with harps.” Due to the collocation with “harps,” some type of stringed instrument is probably in view.
[13:10] 4 tn Heb “and the anger of the
[13:10] 5 tn Heb “because he stretched out his hand over the ark.”
[13:10] 6 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] 7 tn Heb “because the
[13:11] 8 sn The name Perez Uzzah means in Hebrew “the outburst [against] Uzzah.”
[13:13] 9 sn The phrase the City of David refers here to the fortress of Zion in Jerusalem, not to Bethlehem. See 2 Sam 5:7.
