1. Also, he made houses for himself in the City of David. And built a place for the ark of God, and he set up a tent for it.
2. Then David said: "It is illicit for anyone to carry the ark of God except the Levites, whom the Lord chose to carry it and to minister to himself, even unto eternity."
3. And he gathered all of Israel in Jerusalem, so that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.
4. Certainly, there were both the sons of Aaron and the Levites: