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Then David said, "^(C1)No one is to carry the ark of God except the Levites; for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of the LORD and to serve Him forever."

And ^(C1)David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD ^(C2)to its place which he had prepared for it.

David gathered together the sons of Aaron and ^(C1)the Levites:

of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his 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 two hundred of his relatives;

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

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

Then David called for the priests ^(C1)Zadok and ^(C2)Abiathar, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab;

and he said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites; ^(C1)consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel ^(C2)to the place that I have prepared for it.

"^(C1)Because you did not carry it at the first, the LORD our God made an outburst against us, since we did not seek Him according to the ordinance."