1 Chronicles 15:2-15

2Then David said, “1No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for the Lord chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister to Him forever.” 3And 2David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord 3to its place which he had prepared for it. 4David gathered together the sons of Aaron and 4the Levites: 5of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his 5relatives; 6of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and 220 of his relatives; 7of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and 130 of his relatives; 8of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and 200 of his relatives; 9of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and 80 of his relatives; 10of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.

11Then David called for 6Zadok and 7Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab, 12and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; 8consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel 9to the place that I have prepared for it. 1310Because you did not carry it at the first, the Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance.” 1411So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. 15The sons of 12the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.