Perez-uzzah

Perez-uzzah ("the breach of Uzzah") was the place near the threshing floor of Nacon (also called Chidon) where, during David's first attempt to bring the ark of God up to Jerusalem from Kiriath-jearim, the oxen stumbled and Uzzah reached out his hand to steady the ark — and "the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God" (2 Samuel 6:7, 1 Chronicles 13:10). David was both terrified and angry that day — "the LORD had broken out against Uzzah" — and he named the place Perez-uzzah, "the breach of Uzzah," and refused to take the ark any further into Jerusalem. Instead he diverted it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, where it remained for three months while David sought the proper Levitical procedure for transport (the ark was supposed to be carried on poles by the Levites, not loaded on a new cart). After three months of blessing flowing on Obed-edom's house, David tried again — this time successfully (2 Samuel 6:12-15, 1 Chronicles 15). The site lay somewhere between Kiriath-jearim and Jerusalem on the road that climbed up through the Judean hills.