1 Crônicas 15

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 may carry the ark of God but the Levites, for Jehovah has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to serve before Him continually.

³ And David gathered all Israel together at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place, which he had prepared for it.

⁴ And David assembled the sons of Aaron and the Levites:

⁵ of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and one hundred and twenty of his brethren;

⁶ of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and two hundred and twenty of his brethren;

⁷ of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and one hundred and thirty of his brethren;

⁸ of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and two hundred of his brethren;

⁹ of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and eighty of his brethren;

¹⁰ of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and one hundred and twelve of his brethren.

¹¹ And David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites: Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab;

¹² and he said to them, You are the heads of the fathers of the Levites; consecrate yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

¹³ For because you did not do it the first time, Jehovah our God has burst out against us, because we had not inquired of Him concerning the ordinance.

¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the God of Israel.

¹⁵ And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders, by its poles, as Moses had commanded according to the Word of Jehovah.

¹⁶ And David commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as singers with instruments of song, lutes, harps, and resounding cymbals, to raise the voice with joy.

¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of their brethren the sons of Merari, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

¹⁸ and with them their brethren of the second rank. The gatekeepers: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel.

¹⁹ The singers: Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, to sound the cymbals of bronze.

²⁰ Lutes on Alamoth: Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah.

²¹ Directing with harps on the Sheminith: Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah.

²² The songs: Chenaniah, chief of the Levites; he taught the songs because he had understanding.

²³ Doorkeepers for the ark: Berechiah and Elkanah.

²⁴ Sounding the trumpets before the ark of God: Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests. Doorkeepers for the ark: Obed-Edom and Jehiah.

²⁵ Thus David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders over thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

²⁶ And so it was, as God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

²⁷ David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the leader in uplifting singing. David also wore a linen ephod.

²⁸ Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting and with the sound of the shofar, with trumpets and with cymbals, sounding aloud with lutes and harps.

²⁹ And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of Jehovah came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing; and she despised him in her heart.