1. And Dovid consulted with the sarei ha'alafim and me'ot, and with every nagid.
2. And Dovid said unto kol Kehal Yisroel, If it seem tov unto you, and that it be of Hashem Eloheinu, let us send out everywhere unto acheinu (our brethren), that remain in kol Aratzot Yisroel, and with them also to the Kohanim and Levi'im which are in their towns and migroshot (adjacent open lands), that they may gather themselves unto us;
3. And let us bring back the Aron Eloheinu to us, for we inquired not of him in the yamim of Sha'ul.
4. And kol HaKahal said that they would do so, for the thing was yashar in the eyes of kol HaAm.
5. So Dovid assembled kol Yisroel together, from Shichor in Mitzrayim even unto the entrance of Chamat, to bring the Aron HaElohim from Kiryat Ye'arim.
6. And Dovid went up, and kol Yisroel, to Ba'alah, that is, to Kiryat Ye'arim, which belonged to Yehudah, to bring up from there the Aron HaElohim Hashem, that is enthroned upon the keruvim, that is called by [His] Shem.