Chidon

Chidon is a threshing-floor named once, in the Chronicler's account of David's first attempt to bring the ark up to Jerusalem. The parallel in 2 Samuel 6 names the same site by a different name, Nacon, and the two together fix the place by what happened there: Uzza's reach for the ark and his death.

The threshing-floor where Uzza died

In Chronicles the journey halts at a named threshing-floor: "And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled" (1 Chronicles 13:9). The verse fixes the cause — stumbling oxen — and Uzza's reach to steady the ark. The next verse fixes the consequence at the same site: "And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzza, and he struck him, because he put forth his hand to the ark; and there he died before God" (1 Chronicles 13:10). The phrase "there he died" anchors the death to the threshing-floor itself.

The same place called Nacon

The parallel in 2 Samuel preserves the same incident at a threshing-floor named differently: "And when they came to the threshing-floor of Nacon, Uzzah put forth [his hand] to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen stumbled" (2 Samuel 6:6). The bracketed [his hand] supplies the implied object, and the figure is named Uzzah rather than Uzza in the parallel. The death-clause follows in the same form: "And the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Uzzah; and [the Speech of] God struck him there for the error; and there he died by the ark of God" (2 Samuel 6:7). The bracketed [the Speech of] resolves the agent of the striking. Chidon and Nacon name the same threshing-floor, fixed in the tradition by Uzza's death beside the ark.