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          DASV: 2 Samuel 6    

1 David again gathered together all the chosen men of Israel,
thirty thousand.
2 David and all the people who were with him went to Baalah
in Judah, to bring up the ark of God, which is called by
the Name, even the name of the LORD of hosts who sits
enthroned between the cherubim.
3 They set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out
of the house of Abinadab that was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio,
the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart,
4 carrying the ark of God, and Ahio walked in front of the ark.

5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the
LORD with songs and all kinds of musical instruments: lyres,
harps, tambourines, castanets and cymbals.
6 When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached
out his hand to steady the ark of God, and grabbed hold of
it because the oxen stumbled.
7 But the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God
struck him down there for his irreverent act. He died there
beside the ark of God.
8 David was angry because the LORD had burst out on Uzzah.
So he called that place Perez-uzzah [burst out against
Uzzah] to this day.

9 Then David became afraid of the LORD that day. He said,
"How will the ark of the LORD ever come to me?"
10 So David was unwilling to bring the ark of the LORD to him
into the city of David. Instead David had it carried 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. Now the LORD blessed Obed-edom,
and all his house.

12 It was reported to king David, "The LORD has blessed the
house of Obed-edom, and all that belongs to him, because
of the ark of God." So David went there and brought up the
ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of
David with joy.
13 When those carrying the ark of the LORD had gone six steps,
David sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
14 Then David danced before the LORD with all his might
wearing a priestly linen ephod.
15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark
of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

16 As the ark of the LORD entered the city of David, Michal
the daughter of Saul looked out the window. When she saw
king David leaping and dancing before the LORD, she
despised him in her heart.
17 They brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its proper
place inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
18 When David finished offering the burnt offering and peace
offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD
of hosts.
19 He gave to all the people, the whole multitude of Israel,
both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake and a cake
of raisins. So all the people went each one to their own home.

20 Then David himself returned to bless his household. Michal
the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, sneering,
"How glorious the king of Israel was today, shamelessly
exposing himself in the eyes of the slave girls just like
any vulgar fool would do!"
21 Then David replied to Michal, "It was before the LORD,
who chose me instead of your father and anyone from his house,
to appoint me leader over the people of the LORD, Israel,
so I will celebrate before the LORD.
22 I will make myself even more shameful than this, and will
be humiliated in my own eyes, but by these slave girls you
mentioned, I be held in honor."
23 So Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the
day of her death.

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