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Then David said, "^(b)No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister to Him forever."

And ^(c)David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord ^(d)to its place which he had prepared for it.

David gathered together the sons of Aaron and ^(e)the Levites:

of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his ^[a]relatives;

of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and 220 of his relatives;

of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and 130 of his relatives;

of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and 200 of his relatives;

of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and 80 of his relatives;

of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.

Then David called for ^(f)Zadok and ^(g)Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab,

and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites; ^(h)consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel ⁽ⁱ⁾to the place that I have prepared for it.

^(j)Because you did not carry it at the first, the Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance."