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The spot is called in Samuel 'the threshing-floor of Nachon, but in Chronicles the owner is named 'Chidon. As the former word means 'a stroke' and the latter 'destruction, they are probably not to be taken as proper names, but as applied to the place after this event.
But as they were come to the threshing-floor of Chidon, a place so called, Uzzah was slain by the anger of God; for as the oxen shook the ark, he stretched out his hand, and would needs take hold of it. Now, because he was not a priest and yet touched the ark, God struck him dead.
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets. And when they came unto the threshingfloor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
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