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1 - And [David] made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

2 - Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister to him for ever.

3 - And David assembled all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.

4 - And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:

5 - Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty:

6 - Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

7 - Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty:

8 - Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

9 - Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren eighty:

10 - Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twelve.

11 - And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

12 - And said to them, Ye [are] the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, [both] ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel to [the place that] I have prepared for it.

13 - For because ye [did it] not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

14 - So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

15 - And the children of the Levites bore the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staffs on it, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the LORD.

16 - And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with instruments of music, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

17 - So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

18 - And with them their brethren of the second [degree], Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters.

19 - So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with cymbals of brass;

20 - And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

21 - And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

22 - And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, [was] for song: he instructed about the song, because he [was] skillful.

23 - And Berechiah and Elkanah [were] door-keepers for the ark.

24 - And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah [were] door-keepers for the ark.

25 - So David and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom with joy.

26 - And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.

27 - And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen.

28 - Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

29 - And it came to pass, [as] the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.