The ark is brought into the city of David, with great solemnity. Michol derideth David's devotion.
15:1. He made also houses for himself in the city of David: and built a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tabernacle for it.
15:2. Then David said: No one ought to carry the ark of God, but the Levites, whom the Lord hath chosen to carry it, and to minister unto himself for ever.
15:3. And he gathered all Israel together into Jerusalem, that the ark of God might be brought into its place, which he had prepared for it.
15:4. And the sons of Aaron also, and the Levites.
15:5. Of the children of Caath, Uriel was the chief, and his brethren a hundred and twenty.
15:6. Of the sons of Merari, Asaia the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty.
15:7. Of the sons of Gersom, Joel the chief, and his brethren a hundred and thirty.
15:8. Of the sons of Elisaphan, Semeias the chief: and his brethren two hundred.
15:9. Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief: and his brethren eighty.