2 Samuel 6:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ David was afraid of the Lord that day; he said, ‘How can the ark of the Lord come into my care?’ ¹⁰ So David was unwilling to take the ark of the Lord into his care in the city of David; instead David took it to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. ¹¹ The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months; and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.