David asks this question after Uzzah touches the ark (2 Samuel 6:6-9 and 1 Chronicles 13:9-12). The answer, however, is different in both accounts. Chronicles emphasizes David’s appointment of Levites to carry the ark into the city of David as Moses...
David saw Uzzah drop dead when he touched the ark.
David sacrificed oxen and fattened animals after every six steps toward the city of David.
In other words, David saw how holy God is– one who came so close to his ark that he touched it dropped dead....
The lovely folks at Crossway have just released a new website for the book, Glory Road: The Journeys of 10 African-Americans into Reformed Christianity. With the worlds of Cone, West and Dyson, and of Dollar, Jakes and Long eclipsing the gospel from...