Dict: smith - UZZA

smith:

UZZA - U>@ - (strength). A Benjamite of the sons of Ehud. ( kjv@1Chronicles:8:7) (B.C. 1445.) Elsewhere called UZZA, OR UZZAH. ( kjv@1Chronicles:13:7-9-10-11) UZZA, OR UZZAH The children of Uzza were a family of Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:49; kjv@Nehemiah:7:51) (B.C. before 536.) Properly Uzzah. As the text now stands, Uzzah is a descendant of Merari, ( kjv@1Chronicles:6:29)

(14); but there appears to be a gap in the verse. Perhaps he is the same as Zina or Zizah the son of Shimei. ( kjv@1Chronicles:23:10-11) for these names evidently denote the same person, and, in Hebrew character, are not unlike Uzzah.

UZZA, THE GARDEN OF - U>@ - the spot in which Manasseh king of Judah and his son Amon were buried. ( kjv@2Kings:21:18 kjv@2Kings:21:26) It was the garden attached to Manasseh’s palace. ver. 18. The fact of its mention shows that it was not where the usual sepulchres of the kings were. No clue, however, is afforded to its position.

UZZA, OR UZZAH - U>@ - (strength), one of the sons of Abinadab, in whose house at Kirjath-jearim the ark rested for twenty years. Uzzah probably was the second and Ahio the third. They both accompanied its removal when David first undertook to carry it to Jerusalem. (B.C. 1043.) Ahio apparently went before the new cart, ( kjv@1Chronicles:13:7) on which it was placed, and Uzzah walked by the side. "At the threshing-floor of Nachon" (2 Samuel kjv@6:6) or Chidon ( kjv@1Chronicles:13:9) perhaps slipping over the smooth rock oxen stumbled. Uzzah caught the ark to prevent its falling. The profanation was punished by his instant death to the great grief of David, who named the place Perez-uzzah (the breaking-forth on Uzzah). But Uzzah’s fate was not merely the penalty of his own rashness. The improper mode of transporting the ark, which ought to have been borne on the shoulders of the Levites was the primary cause of his unholy deed; and David distinctly recognized it as a punishment on the people in general "because we sought him not after the due order."