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13:1  David consulted with every officer who commanded a regiment or battalion.
13:2  Then he told the whole assembly of Israel, "If you approve and if the LORD our God has consented, we will send [an invitation] to the rest of our relatives in every region of Israel and to the priests and Levites in their cities and pasturelands so that they may join us.
13:3  Then we'll bring back our God's ark, which we ignored while Saul was king."
13:4  The whole assembly agreed to this because the people considered it the right thing to do.
13:5  So David gathered all Israel from the Shihor River near Egypt to the border of Hamath in order to bring God's ark from Kiriath Jearim.
13:6  David and all Israel went to Baalah in Kiriath Jearim, which is in Judah, to bring God's ark [to Jerusalem]. (The LORD is enthroned over the angels [on the ark] where his name is used.)
13:7  David and his men put God's ark on a new cart from Abinadab's home. Uzzah and Ahio guided the cart.
13:8  David and all Israel were celebrating in God's presence with all their might, with songs, with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
13:9  But when they came to Chidon's threshing floor, the oxen stumbled. So Uzzah reached out to grab the ark.
13:10  The LORD became angry with Uzzah and killed him for reaching for the ark. He died in God's presence.
13:11  David was angry because the LORD had struck Uzzah so violently. (That place is still called Perez Uzzah [The Striking of Uzzah] today.)
13:12  David was afraid of God that day. "How can I bring God's ark to my [city]?" he asked.
13:13  So he didn't bring God's ark to his [home], the City of David. Instead, he rerouted it to the home of Obed Edom, who was from Gath.
13:14  God's ark stayed at the home of Obed Edom with his family for three months, and the LORD blessed Obed Edom's family and everything he owned.