Repeatedly in the early records, for example, the adjective «holy» is applied to the Ark, and the significance
of the attribute was revealed when Uzzah, inadvertently touching the sacred
fetish, fell
dead in consequence, (II Samuel 6:6 - 9) or when the
men of Beth - shemesh, looking into it, suffered such devastating penalty that they sent it from their borders, saying, «Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God?»