2 Samuel 6:9
Good News Translation
Then David was afraid of the LORD and said, "How can I take the Covenant Box with me now?"

New Revised Standard Version
David was afraid of the LORD that day; he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come into my care?”

Contemporary English Version
David was afraid of the LORD and thought, "Should I really take the sacred chest to my city?"

New American Bible
David became frightened of the LORD that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the LORD come to me?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?

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Numbers 17:12,13 And the children of Israel said to Moses: Behold we are consumed, we all perish. . . .

1 Samuel 5:10,11 Therefore they sent the ark of God into Accaron. And when the ark of God was come into Accaron, the Accaronites cried out, saying: They have brought the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people. . . .

1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

Psalm 119:120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Luke 5:8,9 Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord. . . .

1 Peter 3:6 As Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose daughters you are, doing well and not fearing any disturbance.

How shall

1 Kings 8:27 Is it then to be thought that God should indeed dwell upon earth? for if heaven, and the heavens of heavens, cannot contain thee, how much less this house which I have built?

1 Chronicles 13:11,12 And David was troubled because the Lord had divided Oza: and he called that place the Breach of Oza to this day. . . .

Job 25:5,6 Behold even the moon doth not shine, and the stars are not pure in his sight. . . .

Context
Uzzah Touches the Ark
8And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day. 9And David was afraid of the Lord that day, saying: How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?10And he would not have the ark of the Lord brought in to himself into the city of David: but he caused it to be carried into the house of Obededom the Gethite.…
Cross References
Luke 5:8
Which when Simon Peter saw, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying: Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord.

1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Bethsames said: Who shall be able to stand before the Lord this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?

2 Samuel 6:8
And David was grieved because the Lord had struck Oza, and the name of that place was called: The striking of Oza, to this day.

Psalm 119:120
Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

2 Samuel 6:8
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