1Dan Daud membuat bagi dirinya di kota Daud, dan menyediakan suatu tempat untuk tabut Allah, dan membentangkan khemah baginya.
2Kemudian Daud berkata, Tidak seorang pun yang harus mengangkat tabut Allah kecuali orang Lewi: merekalah yang dipilih TUHAN untuk mengangkat tabut Allah, dan untuk melayaninya untuk selamanya.
3Dan Daud mengumpulkan seluruh Israel bersama di Yerusalem, untuk membawa tabut TUHAN ke dalam tempatnya, yang telah Daud sediakan untuknya.
4Dan Daud menghimpunkan bani Harun, dan orang Lewi:
5Daripada bani Kehat; Uriel, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak seratus dan dua puluh:
6Daripada bani Merari; Asaya, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak dua ratus dan dua puluh:
7Daripada bani Gerson: Yoel, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak seratus dan tiga puluh:
8Daripada bani Elsafan; Semaya, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak dua ratus:
9Daripada bani Hebron; Eliel, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak dua puluh kali empat:
10Daripada bani Uziel; Aminadab, ketuanya, dan saudara-saudaranya sebanyak seratus dan dua belas.
11Dan Daud memanggil untuk Zadok dan Abyatar, imam-imam itu, dan untuk para orang Lewi, untuk Uriel, Asaya, dan Yoel, Semaya, dan Eliel, dan Aminadab,
12Dan berkata kepada mereka, Kalian merupakan ketua-ketua kepada bapa-bapa orang Lewi: kuduskanlah diri kalian, kedua-dua diri kalian dan saudara-saudara kalian, supaya kalian dapat membawa tabut TUHAN Allah Israel kepada tempat yang telah aku sediakan baginya.
13Oleh sebab kalian tidak melakukan itu pada mulanya, TUHAN Allah kita telah memecah keamanan ke atas kita, kerana kita tidak mencarinya menurut tatatertib yang betul.
14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
15And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
16And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
17So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
18And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
19So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;
20And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;
21And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.on the�: or, on the eighth to oversee
22And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.was for�: or, was for the carriage: he instructed about the carriagesong: Heb. lifting up
23And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.
24And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
25So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
26And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
27And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.song: or, carriage
28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
29Dan terjadilah, sementara tabut waad TUHAN memasuki kota Daud, bahawa Mikhal, anak perempuan Saul, sementara memandang ke luar suatu tingkap telah melihat raja Daud menari dan memain: dan dia memandang hina Daud dalam hatinya.