2 Samuel 6 — Dead Sea Scrolls
1 attestation entry • 0 variants • 4QSamᵃ family
Manuscript Overview
Summary
2 Samuel 6 narrates the transfer of the ark to Jerusalem, the death of Uzzah, David's dancing, and Michal's rebuke. 4QSamᵃ preserves substantial portions with several agreements with LXX in the Uzzah narrative and the dancing description.
Notable Variants
Minor wording variants in the Uzzah-death account. The substance — that Uzzah died for touching the ark — tracks across all witnesses.
Manuscripts
4QSamᵃ (4Q51)
Scroll Condition
4QSamᵃ provides moderate coverage of the chapter.
The anger of the LORD blazed against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence. He died there beside the Ark of God.
The Uzzah-death verse is preserved across witnesses with the same substance: 'and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error.' The MT 'al ha-shal' ('for the error') is parsed differently in some traditions but DSS supports MT.
4QSamᵃ frag.