2nd Samuel Chapter 6 verse 7 Holy Bible
And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.
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And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and God struck him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
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and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Uzzah, and God smiteth him there for the error, and he dieth there by the ark of God.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Error. The word so translated is one quite unknown, and Ewald renders it "unexpectedly." The Revised Version puts "rashness" in the margin. But all three alike are mere guesses, of which "error" is that approved by Keil and others. The Syriac has the same reading here as that found in 1 Chronicles 13:10, namely, "because he put his hand to the ark." This would require the insertion of four or five letters in the Hebrew. By the ark. The word translated "accompanying the ark" in ver. 4.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) For his error.--The original is hero very obscure: 1Chronicles 13:10 has "because he put his hand to the ark." (Comp. 1Samuel 6:19.) Especial sacredness was by the law attached to the ark, and it was strictly commanded, that when it was to be moved it should be first covered by the priests, and then borne by the Levites by means of its staves; but until it was covered, the Levites might not look upon it, and might not touch it, upon pain of death (Numbers 4:5; Numbers 4:15; Numbers 4:19-20). Uzzah was probably a Levite, or, at any rate, had been so long in the house with the ark that he ought to have made himself familiar with the law in regard to it. What may seem, at first thought, an exceeding severe penalty for a well-meaning, though unlawful act, is seen on reflection to have been a very necessary manifestation of the Divine displeasure; for this act involved not only a violation of the letter of the law (of which David also was guilty), but a want of reverence for the majesty of God as symbolised by the ark, and showed a disposition to profane familiarity with sacred things. "Uzzah was a type of all who, with good intentions, humanly speaking, yet with unsanctified minds, interfere in the affairs of the kingdom of God, from the notion that they are in danger, and with the hope of saving them" (O. von Gerlach). Judgments of this kind were, however, temporal, and give in themselves no indication of the treatment of the offender beyond the grave.
