1. 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.
2. Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before Him forever.”
3. David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring the ark of the Lord to the place he had prepared for it.
4. Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:
5. From the Kohathites, Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives;
6. from the Merarites, Asaiah the leader and 220 of his relatives;
7. from the Gershomites, Joel the leader and 130 of his relatives;
8. from the Elizaphanites, Shemaiah the leader and 200 of his relatives;
9. from the Hebronites, Eliel the leader and 80 of his relatives;
10. from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.
11. David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.
12. He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.