Uzzah
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|The Chastisement of Uzzah by James Tissot thumb|250px|Baroque painting of the death of Uzzah by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in a medallion in [[Ljubljana Cathedral (1704)]] Uzzah (also spelled Uzza from hebr.: עזה, meaning "Her Strength"), was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. The account of Uzzah appears in and .
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thumb|right|250px|The Chastisement of Uzzah by James Tissot thumb|250px|Baroque painting of the death of Uzzah by Giulio Quaglio the Younger in a medallion in [[Ljubljana Cathedral (1704)]] Uzzah (also spelled Uzza from hebr.: עזה, meaning "Her Strength"), was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant. The account of Uzzah appears in and .
Uzzah 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. 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 at the threshing floor of Chidon, making the Ark tilt, Uzzah steadied the Ark with his hand, in direct violation of the divine law, and he was immediately killed by the Lord for his error. David, displeased because Yahweh had killed Uzzah, called the place where this occurred "Perez-uzzah", which means "to burst out against Uzzah".