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Then David said, No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.
and said to them, You are the chiefs of the families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you shall bring up the ark of the God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.
And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, as Moses had commanded by the word of God according to what was written, with carrying-poles upon them.
And David said to the rulers of the Levites, "Appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song — harps and lyres and cymbals — to sound aloud with a voice of gladness."
So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan son of Kishai.
And with them their brothers of the second rank: Zechariah and Oziel and Semiramoth and Jeiel and Unni and Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah and Mattithiah and Eliphaliah and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Uzziah, the gatekeepers.
And Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat and Nethanel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests, blowing the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-edom and Jehiah, gatekeepers of the ark of God.
And David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands were those who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with gladness.
And David was girded with a robe of fine linen, and so were all the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chenaniah the chief of the songs of those who sang; and upon David was a robe of fine linen.
And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the sopher, and with trumpets, and with cymbals sounding aloud, with harps and with lyres.
And the ark of the covenant of the Lord came as far as the city of David; and Michal the daughter of Saul looked down through the window and saw King David dancing and playing, and she despised him in her soul.