with the ark of God on it,[a] and Ahio was walking in front of it. David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets,[b] harps, lyres, tambourines, rattles and cymbals.

When they came to the threshing-floor of Nakon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen stumbled.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:4 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text cart and they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill
  2. 2 Samuel 6:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs