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Uzzah reaches out to steady the cart and dies.
In plain words
Uzzah reaches out to steady the Ark on its cart and dies. The text records the rule and the death and softens neither.
The mechanism
THE PUBLISHED RULE PAID — no exception for a good hand or a lurching cart. The record sets down the law, sets down the death, and leaves them side by side without a softening word
Scripture
2 Samuel 6:6–7; Numbers 4:15
How it was checked
- EvidenceT3 SCRIPTURE; Status: COMMITTED
- Letter eraTHE LINE HELD THROUGH HELL Abraham to Solomon, c. 2000 to c. 930 BC
- Plate — James Tissot, "The Chastisement of Uzzah" (2 Samuel 6:7), pen and ink sketch, John Rylands Library · Public domain · source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tissot_Drawing_295_The_chastisement_of_Uzzah_2_Samuel_6_7_for_Brunoff_282_Le_ch%C3%A0timent_d%27Oza.jpg
- SourcesSCRIPTURE — 2 Samuel 6:6–7 against Numbers 4:15
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