1 David took counsel with the leaders of thousands and of hundreds, with every leader.
2 Then David said to the whole assembly of Israel, "If you think it good, and if this is from the LORD our God, let us send out everywhere to our brothers left in all the regions of Israel, and also to the priests and Levites in the cities where they have pasturelands, to come together to us.
3 And let us bring the ark of our God around to us again, for in Saul's days we did not inquire of it."
4 The whole assembly agreed to do so, because the matter seemed right to all the people.
5 So David called together all Israel, from the Shihor of Egypt as far as Lebo-hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
6 David and all Israel went up to Baalah, to Kiriath-jearim of Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, the LORD who sits above the cherubim, which is called by his name.
7 They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of Abinadab's house, with Uzza and Ahio guiding the cart.
8 And David and all Israel were rejoicing before God with all their strength, with song, with lyres and harps, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
9 They reached the threshing floor of Chidon, and Uzza reached out his hand to steady the ark, for the oxen had stumbled.
10 The LORD's anger flared up against Uzza, and he struck him because he had laid his hand on the ark, and he died there in the presence of God.
11 David was angered that the LORD had burst out against Uzza, and that place has been called Perez-uzza until this day.
12 That day David feared God and said, "How can I bring the ark of God to my place?"
13 So David did not move the ark to himself in the City of David; he had it taken aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.
14 The ark of God stayed with Obed-edom's family in his house for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom's house and everything that belonged to him.