Why Did Uzzah Die For Touching the Ark?

[Randy Carson]

You married? Have kids? What happens to discipline in your house when you tell your son, "Don't pull the dog's tail", and he ignores you? He might get bitten or he might learn that dad is a wimp and there are no consequences for disobedience. So what happens later when he is playing ball in the yard and chases that ball into the street and you yell "Stop!" because a car is coming but he ignores his wimpy dad?

God says, "Don't touch the ark." Uzzah touches it. What do the Israelites learn from that? That God's rules can be broken? What happens when later God gives them some important life-and-death instructions, and they decide to ignore Him again? Lots more than one person might have died.

Sure, whenever one of my children disobeys me, I kill them just like any good father would do.  It teaches the others a valuable lesson.

We're still talking about it 3,000 years later, so I'd say God got a lot of mileage out of it...which was His point, I believe.