1. He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.
2. Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever.
3. And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.
4. And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.