1 Chronicles 15
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The Ark Brought to Jerusalem
2Sa 6:12–19
1So David built houses for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it. # 1Ch 15:3; 16:1 2Then David said, “No one may carry the ark of God except the Levites since the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before Him always.” # Dt 10:8; 31:9
3David assembled all Israel to Jerusalem in order to bring up the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it. # 1Ki 8:1; 1Ch 13:5 4Then David assembled the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
5from the sons of Kohath,
Uriel the leader and one hundred and twenty of his brothers;
6from the sons of Merari,
Asaiah the leader and two hundred and twenty of his brothers;
7from the sons of Gershom,
Joel the leader and one hundred and thirty of his brothers;
8from the sons of Elizaphan,
Shemaiah the leader and two hundred of his brothers;
9from the sons of Hebron,
Eliel the leader and eighty of his brothers;
10from the sons of Uzziel,
Amminadab the leader and one hundred and twelve of his brothers.
11Then David called for Zadok # 1Ch 12:28 and Abiathar # 1Sa 22:20–23 the priests and for the Levites: Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12He said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, # Ex 19:14–15; 2Ch 35:6 you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. 13Because you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek Him about the proper procedures.” # 2Sa 6:3 14So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. 15The sons of the Levites lifted up the ark of God just as Moses commanded, with the poles on their shoulders, according to the word of the Lord. # Nu 4:15; 7:9
16Then David told the leaders of the Levites to position their brothers the singers with musical instruments, harps, lyres, and cymbals to resound with joyful songs. # 1Ch 13:8; 16:42
17So the Levites placed Heman the son of Joel, # 1Ch 6:33 and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, # 1Ch 6:39 and from their brothers the sons of Merari, Ethan the son of Kushaiah, 18and with them their brothers of the second rank: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, # 1Ch 26:4 and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.
19So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound the bronze cymbals. # 1Ch 25:6 20Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth. 21Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to Sheminith. 22Kenaniah, leader of the Levites, was to direct the music, because he was skillful.
23Berekiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark. 24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. # Nu 10:8; 1Ch 16:6 Obed-Edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark.
25So David, the elders of Israel, and the leaders of the thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-Edom with rejoicing. 26Since God helped the Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. # Nu 23:29; Job 42:8 27Now David was clothed in a fine linen robe, as were the Levites who carried the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah, the conductor of singing and singers. David himself wore a linen ephod. # 2Sa 6:14 28So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with a shout and with the sound of the ram’s horn and with trumpets and cymbals, making music on harps and lyres. # 1Ch 13:8; 15:16
29Now as the ark of the covenant of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal the daughter of Saul was looking down from the window, and when she saw King David dancing and spinning, she despised him in her heart. # 2Sa 6:16
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