Perez-Uzza
Fausset's Bible Dictionary [1]
Perez-Uzza or Perez-Uzzah ("Uzzah's breaking"). (See Perazim .) 1 Chronicles 13:11; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 2 Samuel 6:8. So David named Nachon's or Chidoh's threshing floor, because Jehovah made a breach or breaking forth on Uzzah for his presumptuous rashness in stretching forth his hand to support the shaken ark. Now Khirbet el Uz or Auz, two miles from Kirjath Jearim, on the hill above Chesla (Chesalon), a short way before Kuryet es Saideh, "the blessed city," i.e. the abode of Obed Edom whom God" blessed." Uzzah was a Kohathite Levite (Josephus, Ant. 6:1, section 4). The ark was taken to his father Abinadab's house, as subsequently to Obed Edom's, just because he was a Levite. Probably the Amminadab of 1 Chronicles 15:10, of Kohath's family ( 1 Chronicles 6:18); Numbers 4:5; Numbers 4:15, shows the Kohathites were to bear but not to touch the ark, which was the office of Aaron's family. So ministers claiming the sacerdotal priest's office usurp Christ's office at their peril.
Holman Bible Dictionary [2]
1 Chronicles 13:11
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [3]
PEREZ-UZZA(H). See Uzza, 3.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
(Heb. Pe'rets Uzza', פֶּרֶוֹ עֻזָּא , 1 Chronicles 13:11), or Pe'rez-Uz'zah (Heb. Pe'Rets Uzzoah'. פֶּרֶוֹ עֻזָּה , breach of Uzzah, 2 Samuel 6:8; Sept. Διασκοπὴ Ο᾿Ζ ) , the name which David conferred on the threshing- floor of Nachon, or Chidon, in commemoration of the sudden death of Uzzah: "And David was wroth because Jehovah had broken this breach on Uzzah, and he called the place ‘ Uzzah's breaking' unto this day." The word perez was a favorite with David on such occasions. He employed it to commemorate his having "broken up" the Philistine force in the valley of Rephaim ( 2 Samuel 5:20). (See Baalpera-Zim). He also used it in a subsequent reference to Uzzah's destruction in 1 Chronicles 15:13. It is remarkable that the statement of the continued existence of the name should be found not only in Samuel and Chronicles, but also in Josephus, who says (Ant. 7:4, 2), as if from his own observation, "the place where he died is even now ( Ἔτι Νῦν ) called ‘ the cleaving of Oza."' About a mile and a half or two miles from the site of Kirjath-jearim, on the hill immediately above Chesla, the ancient Chesalon, on the road thence towards Jerusalem, is a small village still called Khirbet El- Uz, or "the ruins of Uzzah." It is given by Prof. Robinson among the names of places west of Jerusalem as Khirbet El-Lauz, or, as it should be written, Khirbet El-Auz. This seems to be Perez-Uzzah. The position, on the road to Jerusalem, near the site of Obed-edom's house, and not far from the site of Kirjath-jearim, all correspond. David, Ibeing afraid, it is said, to proceed with the ark towards Jerusalem, "carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite." It seems therefore that the house of Obed-edom must have been near or in the immediate neighborhood of Perez-Uzzah. (See Obededom).
