Uzzah

The Chastisement of Uzzah by James Tissot

Baroque painting of the death of Uzzah by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in a medaillon in Ljubljana Cathedral (1704)

According to the Tanakh, Uzzah or Uzza^[1] (died 1010 BC) was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. He was the son of Abinadab, in whose house the men of Kirjath-jearim placed the Ark when it was brought back from the land of the Philistines.^[2] With his brother Ahio, he drove the cart on which the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem. When the oxen stumbled, Uzzah, in direct violation of the divine law,^[3] steadied the ark with his hand, and was immediately killed. David, displeased because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah,^[4] called the place where this occurred Perez-uzzah.^[5] David feared to proceed further, and placed the ark in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite^[6] for three months. The Lord then blessed Obed-edom and David went and brought up the ark of God into the city of David.^[7]

Other

Uzzah, son of Shimei, a Merarite.^[8]

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References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Easton, Matthew George (1897). "^{article name needed}". Easton's Bible Dictionary (New and revised ed.). T. Nelson and Sons.