⁸ David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.^{(A) 9} When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor,^(B) Uzzah reached out to hold the ark because the oxen had stumbled. ¹⁰ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Uzzah, and He struck him dead because he had reached out to the ark.^(C) So he died there in the presence of God.^(D)