📖WEB · 2 Samuel 6:8
What does 2 Samuel 6:8 mean?
"David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day."
— 2 Samuel 6:8 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with castanets, and with cymbals.
When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached for God’s ark, and took hold of it; for the cattle stumbled.
Yahweh’s anger burned against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by God’s ark.
David was displeased, because Yahweh had broken out against Uzzah; and he called that place Perez Uzzah, to this day.
David was afraid of Yahweh that day; and he said, “How could Yahweh’s ark come to me?”
So David would not move Yahweh’s ark to be with him in David’s city; but David carried it aside into Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house.
Yahweh’s ark remained in Obed-Edom the Gittite’s house three months; and Yahweh blessed Obed-Edom and all his house.
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