And he smote him. —Abridged from and God smote him there (2 Samuel 6:7).

Because …

I suppose that Uzza, because the ark had been in his father's house for so long, had grown unduly familiar with it and therefore touched it. Yet it…

(See Gill on 1 Chronicles 13:5).

Let the sin of Uzza warn all to take heed of presumption, rashness, and irreverence, in dealing with holy things; and let no one think that a good …