📖WEB · 1 Chronicles 13:11
What does 1 Chronicles 13:11 mean?
"David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day."
— 1 Chronicles 13:11 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets.
When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put his hand on the ark; and he died there before God.
David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzza. He called that place Perez Uzza, to this day.
David was afraid of God that day, saying, “How can I bring God’s ark home to me?”
So David didn’t move the ark with him into David’s city, but carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
God’s ark remained with the family of Obed-Edom in his house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom’s house and all that he had.
Explanation
First Chronicles 13:11 records David's emotional reaction after a sudden tragedy struck during the transport of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. As the ark was being carried on a new cart, the oxen stumbled, and a man named Uzza reached out his hand to steady it. Because of this, God struck him dead on the spot. David, deeply troub
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