¹And he made himself houses in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and he pitched a tent for it. ²Then David commanded that no-one should bear the ark of God except the Levites, for the Lord had chosen them to bear the ark of the Lord, and to serve him age-abidingly. ³And David convened all of Israel to Jerusalem for the bringing up of the ark of the Lord to its place which he had prepared for it. ⁴And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites: ⁵of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the principal one and his brothers – one hundred and twenty of them; ⁶of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the principal one and his brothers – two hundred and twenty of them; ⁷of the sons of Gershom, Joel the principal one and his brothers – one hundred and thirty of them; ⁸of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the principal one and his brothers – two hundred of them; ⁹of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the principal one and his brothers – eighty of them; ¹⁰of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the principal one and his brothers – one hundred and twelve of them. 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, “You are the paternal heads of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel up to where I have prepared for it. ¹³Since it wasn't you bringing it up on the first occasion, the Lord our God broke in on us – because we did not seek him according to the ordinance.” ¹⁴So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵And the sons of the Levites bore the ark of God, as Moses had commanded, according to the word of the Lord, with the poles extending onto their shoulders. ¹⁶And David told the senior Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers with instruments of song: lutes and harps and timbrels, producing sounds and with raising of the voice in joy. ¹⁷So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah, and from the sons of Merari – their brothers – Ethan the son of Kushaiah. ¹⁸And with them were their brothers the juniors in rank: Zechariah, Ben and Jaaziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni, Eliab and Benaiah and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-Edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers; ¹⁹and the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan to produce sound with copper timbrels; ²⁰and Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with lutes accompanying the maiden's choir; ²¹and Mattithiah and Elipheleh and Mikneiah and Obed-Edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with harps accompanying the eighth day division choir, to lead in music; ²²and Chenaniah, a senior Levite who was engaged in the singing – he instructed the singing because he was knowledgeable; ²³and Berechiah and Elkanah, gatekeepers for the ark; ²⁴and Shebaniah and Jehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai and Zechariah and Benaiah and Eliezer, the priests who blew the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah who were gatekeepers of the ark. ²⁵So it was David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of a thousand who went to bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord up from the house of Obed-Edom with joy, ²⁶and it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. ²⁷And David was attired in a byssus robe, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the choir of the singers. And on David was an ephod of fine linen. ²⁸So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with shouting and with the sound of the ramshorn and with trumpets and with timbrels, making sounds with lutes and harps. ²⁹And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the Lord was arriving in the City of David, that Michal, Saul's daughter, was peering out of the window, and she saw King David dancing and cavorting, and she despised him in her heart.