1David mobilizou 30 000 dos melhores soldados de Israel.2E foram juntos até Baalá de Judá, a fim de trazer de volta a arca de Deus que está consagrada ao SENHOR dos exércitos, cujo trono está acima dos querubins.3-4A arca foi colocada sobre um carro novo e levada da casa de Abinadabe, que ficava numa colina. Era conduzida pelos filhos deste último, Uzá e Aiô. Aiô ia à frente.5Era seguido por David e pelos outros líderes de Israel que agitavam alegremente ramos de faia, na presença do SENHOR, e tocavam liras, harpas, tamborins, pandeiretas e címbalos.6No entanto, quando chegaram à eira de Nacom, os bois tropeçaram e Uzá estendeu o braço para segurar a arca.7A ira do SENHOR acendeu-se contra ele e Deus matou-o por causa do seu gesto. E ficou ali estendido ao lado da arca de Deus.8David ficou muito contristado por causa do que o SENHOR fizera e deu àquele lugar o nome Perez-Uzá (brecha de Uzá). Ainda hoje é assim chamado.9O rei ficou com medo do SENHOR e interrogava-se: “Como poderei trazer a arca do SENHOR até mim?”10Por isso, resolveu não transportá-la para a Cidade de David, mas levá-la antes para a casa de Obede-Edom, originário de Gate.11Esta ficou ali por três meses e o SENHOR abençoou a Obede-Edom e a toda a sua casa e família.12Quando o rei soube que o SENHOR tinha abençoado Obede-Edom, toda a sua família e bens, por causa da arca de Deus, decidiu ir à casa de Obede-Edom e ordenou que transportassem a arca de Deus com grande alegria para a Cidade de David.13A cada seis passos que os transportadores da arca davam, paravam e esperavam que se oferecesse o sacrifício de um boi e de um bezerro cevado.14David dançava perante o SENHOR com toda a exuberância, vestido com a veste sacerdotal[1].15Foi dessa maneira que Israel trouxe para o seu local próprio a arca do SENHOR. Tudo isto acompanhado de brados de júbilo e toques de trombetas.16Quando a arca do SENHOR se aproximou da Cidade de David, Mical, a filha de Saul, que estava observando da janela, viu David a saltar e a dançar na presença do SENHOR e desprezou-o no seu íntimo.17Puseram pois a arca do SENHOR numa tenda, no lugar que David tinha preparado. Depois David ofereceu holocaustos e ofertas de paz ao SENHOR.18No final destas ofertas David abençoou o povo em nome do SENHOR dos exércitos.19Distribuiu por cada um, homens e mulheres, um pão, um bolo de tâmaras e um bolo de uvas. Quando tudo terminou todos se retiraram.20David regressou a casa para abençoar a sua família. No entanto, Mical veio ao seu encontro e exclamou com um tom irónico: “Que ar glorioso tinha hoje o rei de Israel, expondo-se aos olhos das raparigas, ao longo das ruas, como um vadio qualquer!”21David respondeu-lhe: “Estive a dançar diante do SENHOR, que me escolheu em lugar do teu pai e da tua família, e me nomeou chefe de Israel, o povo do SENHOR!22Não me importo de me humilhar mais e rebaixar, como tu dizes, pois sei que mesmo assim serei respeitado pelas raparigas a quem te referias!”23E Mical não teve filhos durante toda a sua vida.
1David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. (1 Cr 13:6)2And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the Lord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim. (Ex 25:22; Js 15:9; Js 15:60; 1 Sm 4:4; 2 Cr 1:4; Sl 80:1)3And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio,[1] the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart, (1 Sm 6:7; 1 Sm 7:1)4with the ark of God,[2] and Ahio went before the ark.
Uzzah and the Ark
5And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs[3] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. (1 Cr 13:8; Sl 150:3)6And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. (Nm 4:15; 1 Cr 13:9; 1 Cr 15:2)7And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. (1 Sm 6:19)8And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah[4] to this day.9And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”10So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. (1 Cr 15:25)11And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household. (1 Cr 26:5)12And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing. (1 Rs 8:1; 1 Cr 15:25)13And when those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. (Nm 4:15; Nm 7:9; Js 3:3; 1 Rs 8:5; 1 Cr 15:2; 1 Cr 15:15)14And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. (Ex 15:20; 1 Sm 2:18; Sl 30:11; Sl 150:4)15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
David and Michal
16As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.17And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. (1 Rs 8:5; 1 Rs 8:62; 1 Cr 15:1; 2 Cr 1:4; Sl 132:8)18And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts (1 Rs 8:14; 1 Rs 8:55)19and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat,[5] and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house. (1 Cr 16:43)20And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!” (Jz 9:4; 1 Sm 19:24; 2 Sm 6:14; 2 Sm 6:16)21And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince[6] over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will celebrate before the Lord. (1 Sm 13:14; 1 Sm 15:28)22I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your[7] eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”23And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.