Chapter 15 And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place
for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites.
For them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him
forever.
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord
unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
And David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites, of the sons of Kohath,
Uriel the chief, and his brethren, an hundred and twenty, of the sons of
Murarai, Uzair the chief, and his brethren, two hundred and twenty,
of the sons of Gershon, Joel the chief, and his brethren, an hundred and thirty,
of the sons Eliezeiphan, Shimea the chief, and his brethren, two hundred,
And David called for Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, and for the Levites,
for Uriel, Ezeah, and Joel, Shimeah, and Elial, and Ammonadab, and said unto
them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites.
Sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of
the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
For because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us,
for that we salt him not after the due order.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord
God of Israel.
And the children of the Levites bear the ark of God upon their shoulders with the
staves thereon, as Moses commanded, according to the word of the Lord.
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be
the singers with instruments of music, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals,
sounding by lifting up the voice with joy.
So the Levites appointed Haman the son of Joel, and of his brethren Asaph the son of
Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Cushea,
and with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jeaziel,
and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani, Eliab, and Baneah, Amasiah, and Matithiah,
and Eliphilah, and Micnea, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel the porters.
So the singers Haman, Asaph, and Ethan were appointed to sound with cymbals of
brass, and Zechariah, and Eziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Ani,
and Eliab, and Measiah, and Baneah with psalteries on Alamoth, and Matithiah,
and Eliphilah, and Micnea, and Obed-Edom, and Jehiel, and Azaziah with harps on the
Shemineth to excel, and Kenaniah chief of the Levites was for song.
He instructed about the song because he was skillful, and Berechiah, and Elkanah
were doorkeepers for the ark, and Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nathanael,
and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Baneah, and Eliezer the priests did blow the
trumpets before the ark of God, and Obed-Edom, and Jehiah were doorkeepers
for the ark.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to
bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obed-Edom with
joy.
And it came to pass when God helped the Levites that bear the ark of the covenant
of the Lord, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams, and David was
clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bear the ark,
and the singers, and Kenaniah the master of the song with the singers.
David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting,
and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise
with psalteries and harps.
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of
David, that Michael, the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw King David
dancing and playing, and she despised him in her heart.