OK... and your point is??
"It is written..."
NIV Exodus 25:8-40
8. "Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.
9. Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.
10. "Have them make a chest of acacia wood--two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.
11. Overlay it with pure gold, both inside and out, and make a gold molding around it.
12. Cast four gold rings for it and fasten them to its four feet, with two rings on one side and two rings on the other.
13. Then make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.
14. Insert the poles into the rings on the sides of the chest to carry it.
15. The poles are to remain in the rings of this ark; they are not to be removed.
16. Then put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
17. "Make an atonement cover of pure gold--two and a half cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
18. And make two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
19. Make one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; make the cherubim of one piece with the cover, at the two ends.
20. The cherubim are to have their wings spread upward, overshadowing the cover with them. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the cover.
21. Place the cover on top of the ark and put in the ark the Testimony, which I will give you.
NIV Numbers 4:15
"After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the Tent of Meeting.
NIV Numbers 4:19
So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.
NIV Joshua 3:2-4
2. After three days the officers went throughout the camp,
3. giving orders to the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests, who are Levites, carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it.
4. Then you will know which way to go, since you have never been this way before. But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between you and the ark; do not go near it."
(In II Samuel 6, David was NOT moving the Ark by using the poles!)
Fine, and preventing the ark from falling to the ground is a greater offense than simply letting it happen?
And as far as I know, the ark wasn't impaired by Uzzah's hand touching it. The ancient Hebrews still kept using it and didn't throw it away or asked their god to give them a new one because Uzzah, that stupid wretch, left his fingerprints on the gold plating since he forgot to put on gloves.
Furthermore, what I don't understand is that this omnipotent god, who allegedly created this vast universe with all the planets, suns, galaxies, galaxy-clusters, superclusters, etc. gets worked up about something petty like a guy inadvertently touching some wooden artifact. I mean what the...