Nachon

NACHON. Mention is made of the Floor of Nachon in the second Book of Samuel, vi. 6. So that Nachon must be the Name of a Man, who is known by no other Passage of Scripture, except that when the Oxen which brought the Ark were arrived at his Threshing-Floor, they began to stumble; this put the Ark in Danger of being overturned, which made Uzzah put his Hand to it to hold it up. But for this Piece of officious Irreverence, the Lord struck him dead. Others translate the Hebrew¹ by the prepared Floor, the Floor of Obed-edom, which was near, prepared to place the Ark therein. The first Book of Chronicles, xiii. 9. reads the Floor of Chidon, instead of the Floor of Nachon. The Chaldee has only in the Place prepared. This Place, wherever it was, either was in Jerusalem, or very near to Jerusalem, and the House of 2 Sam. vi. 10. Levit. ix. 24.Obed-edom, which was in this City.

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