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title: 1 Chronicles 15
slug: kjv/1-chronicles-15
createdAt: 2024-08-18T02:58:56.523Z
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**1 **And *David* made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent. **2 **Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. **3 **And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it. **4 **And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: **5 **Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty: **6 **Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: **7 **Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: **8 **Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred: **9 **Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: **10 **Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

**11 **And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, **12 **And said unto them, Ye *are* the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, *both* ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto *the place that* I have prepared for it. **13 **For because ye *did it* not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. **14 **So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

**15 **And 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.

**16 **And 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. **17 **So 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; **18 **And 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. **19 **So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, *were appointed* to sound with cymbals of brass; **20 **And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth; **21 **And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel. **22 **And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, *was* for song: he instructed about the song, because he *was* skilful. **23 **And Berechiah and Elkanah *were* doorkeepers for the ark. **24 **And 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.

**25 **So 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. **26 **And 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. **27 **And 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. **28 **Thus 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.

**29 **And it came to pass, *as* the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.