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Then David did just as God had commanded him, and they struck down the camp of the Philistines from Gibeon even as far as Gezer.

Then David made houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

And David said, "No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for Yahweh chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister to Him forever."

and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites; set yourselves apart as holy, both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

Because you did not carry it at the first, Yahweh our God broke out against us, for we did not seek Him according to the legal judgment."

So the priests and the Levites set themselves apart as holy to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of Yahweh.

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah also were gatekeepers for the ark.

Now this happened because God was helping the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. And they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

And they brought in the ark of God and placed it inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and they brought burnt offerings and peace offerings near before God.

And he made some of the Levites ministers before the ark of Yahweh, even to bring remembrance and to thank and praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

He is Yahweh our God;His judgments are in all the earth.

Then say, "Save us, O God of our salvation,And gather us and deliver us from among the nations,To give thanks to Your holy nameAnd revel in Your praise."

Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel,From everlasting to everlasting.Then all the people said, "Amen," and praised Yahweh.

And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.

So Nathan said to David, "Do all that is in your heart, for God is with you."

Now it happened in the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

Then David the king went in and sat before Yahweh and said, "Who am I, O Yahweh God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?

And this was a small thing in Your eyes, O God; but You have spoken of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future, and have regarded me according to the standard of a man of high degree, O Yahweh God.