1Chronicles:15:1-16

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* And he built houses for himself in the City of David , and prepared a place for the ark of God , and stretched out a tent for it . * Then David said , None should bear the ark of God except the Levites , for Jehovah had chosen them to bear the ark of God , and to serve Him forever . * And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem , to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place that he had prepared for it . * And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites . * Of the sons of Kohath , Uriel the chief , and his brothers , a hundred and twenty . * Of the sons of Merari , Asaiah the chief , and his brothers , two hundred and twenty . * Of the sons of Gershom : Joel the chief , and his brothers , a hundred and thirty . * Of the sons of Elizaphan , Shemaiah the chief , and his brothers , two hundred . * Of the sons of Hebron , Eliel the chief , and his brothers , eighty . * Of the sons of Uzziel , Amminadab the chief , and his brothers , a hundred and twelve . * And David called to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests , and to the Levites , to Uriel , Asaiah , and Joel , Shemaiah , and Eliel , and Amminadab , * and said to them , You are the heads of your fathers of the Levites ; sanctify yourselves , you and your brothers , and you shall bring up the ark of Jehovah , the God of Israel , to the place I have prepared for it . * Because you did not do so at the first , Jehovah our God broke in against us , for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance . * And the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel . * And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God , as Moses commanded , according to the word of Jehovah , by staves above on the shoulders . * And David commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song , psalteries , and harps , and sounding cymbals , to lift up the voice with joy .

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