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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 unto him for ev­er. 3 And David gath­ered all Is­rael to­geth­er to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his 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 an 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 an 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 fourscore: 10 Of the sons of Uzziel; Am­mi­nadab the chief, and his brethren an 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 unto 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 unto 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 bare the ark of God upon their shoul­ders with the staves there­on, as Moses com­mand­ed ac­cord­ing to the word of the LORD. 16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to ap­point their brethren ­to be the singers with in­stru­ments of mu­sick, 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 Obe­de­dom, 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 Obe­de­dom, 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 skil­ful. 23 And Berechi­ah and Elka­nah were door­keep­ers 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 Obe­de­dom and Je­hi­ah were door­keep­ers 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 out of the house of Obe­de­dom with joy. 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare 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 bare 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.