He just touched it ( 2 Samuel 6 )

When  David became king and things were going well for him,his mind turned to the Ark of God or the Ark of the covenant ,which was being kept by a family in a place called Kiriath-jearim, it had stayed there for twenty years.after the battle with the Philistines ( 1 Sam 7 ) David decided to bring the Ark to Jerusalem,so they placed the Ark on a new cart and headed back to Jerusalem . Everybody was celebrating and the bands played, wonderful,then something happened that stopped everyone in their tracks.,a man touched the Ark ,thinking it was going to fall of the cart,but the moment he did that, the Lord struck him down for his irreverent action and he died.Davids immediate response was anger and then then fear.It may seem an innocent thing to simply touch the Ark, but it wasn't. God forbid anyone to touch it on power of death ( Numbers 4 v 15 ),and the Ark was meant to be carried. Deuteronomy 4 v 2  / 5 v 32 / 12 v 32 .  stresses the importance of doing exactly what  God commands,to not deviate from it in any way or there would be consequences. Uzzah paid the price for disobedience ,the same would have happened to David if he had touched the Ark.It is Mary J.Evans who writes''Our conviction that God is' nice and would never do anything that we might not like ,makes passages like this one difficult for us. We need to grasp much more clearly what it means to say ,that God is holy.......Passages like this force us to take seriously how strongly God feels about placing our preferences before His revealed will''                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Gods instructions were not to be so                                                                                                                          lightly dismissed.                                                                                                                                           ( M.J.Evans)