1 Chronicles 13:9

the threshingfloor of Chidon LXX. (B) omits of Chidon. In 2 Samuel 6:6, Nacon's threshing-floor.

to hold the ark The Chronicler from a feeling of reverence shrinks from saying, and took hold of it(2 Samuel 6:6).

stumbled R.V. mg. threwit down, but the meaning is perhaps rather, let it go, i.e. let the cart on which the ark was slip backwards. The same Heb. word is used 2 Kings 9:33; there Jehu in his mocking humour says not, Throw her down, but, Let her go, an ambiguous command meant to throw as much responsibility as possible upon those who obeyed it.