1 Chronicles 15:2-15

2Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of 1God but the Levites, for them has Jehovah chosen to carry the ark of 2God, and to serve him for ever.

3And David assembled all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place that he had prepared for it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12and he said to them, Ye are the chief fathers of the Levites; hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of Jehovah the 3God of Israel to [the place that] I have prepared for it.

13For because ye did [it] not at the first, Jehovah our 4God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.

14So the priests and the Levites hallowed themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah the 5God of Israel.

15And the children of the Levites bore the ark of 6God upon their shoulders with the staves upon them, as Moses had commanded according to the word of Jehovah.