15 And he continued building houses for himself in the City of David, and he prepared a place for the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} and pitched a tent for it. 2 It was then that David said: “No one is to carry the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} except the Levites, for Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} has chosen them to carry the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} and to minister to him always.” 3 Then David congregated all Isra'Al at Yerushalom to bring the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} up to the place that he had prepared for it.
4 David gathered the descendants of Aaron and the Levites: 5 from the Koʹhath·ites, U·riʹel the chief and 120 of his brothers; 6 from the Me·rarʹites, A·sayʹah the chief and 220 of his brothers; 7 from the Gerʹshom·ites, Yo'Al the chief and 130 of his brothers; 8 from the descendants of A·li·zaʹphan, She·mayʹah the chief and 200 of his brothers; 9 from the descendants of Hebʹron, Eʹli·Al the chief and 80 of his brothers; 10 from the descendants of Uzʹzi·Al, Am·minʹa·dab the chief and 112 of his brothers. 11 Furthermore, David called the priests Zaʹdok and A·biʹa·thar and the Levites U·riʹel, A·sayʹah, Yo'Al, She·mayʹah, Eʹli·Al, and Am·minʹa·dab, 12 and he said to them: “You are the heads of the paternal houses of the Levites. Sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and bring the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} the Al {pre. Ahl} of Isra'Al up to the place that I have prepared for it. 13 Since you did not carry it the first time, the anger of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} our Al {pre. Ahl} broke out against us, because we did not search out the proper procedure.” 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the Ark of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} the Al {pre. Ahl} of Isra'Al.
15 Then the Levites carried the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl} on their shoulders with the poles, just as Moses had commanded by Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}’s word. 16 David then told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers to sing out joyfully, accompanied by musical instruments: stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals.
17 So the Levites appointed Heʹman the son of Yo'Al and, of his brothers, Aʹsaph the son of Ber·e·chyʹah and, of the Me·rarʹites their brothers, Eʹthan the son of Kush·aʹyah. 18 Together with them were their brothers of the second division, Zech·a·ryʹah, Ben, Ja·aʹzi·Al, She·mirʹa·moth, Ye·hiʹel, Unʹni, A·liʹab, Be·nayʹah, Ma·a·seyʹah, Mat·ti·thyʹah, A·liphʹe·le·hu, and Mik·neʹyah and Oʹbed-eʹdom and Ye·iʹel the gatekeepers. 19 The singers Heʹman, Aʹsaph, and Eʹthan were to play the copper cymbals; 20 and Zech·a·ryʹah, Aʹzi·Al, She·mirʹa·moth, Ye·hiʹel, Unʹni, A·liʹab, Ma·a·seyʹah, and Be·nayʹah played stringed instruments tuned to Alʹa·moth; 21 and Mat·ti·thyʹah, A·liphʹe·le·hu, Mik·neʹyah, Oʹbed-eʹdom, Ye·iʹel, and Az·a·zyʹah played harps tuned to Shemʹi·nith, to act as directors. 22 Chen·a·nyʹah the chief of the Levites supervised the transport, for he was an expert, 23 and Ber·e·chyʹah and Al·kaʹnah were gatekeepers for the Ark. 24 The priests Sheb·a·nyʹah, Joshʹa·phat, Ne·thanʹel, A·maʹsai, Zech·a·ryʹah, Be·nayʹah, and A·li·eʹzer loudly sounded the trumpets before the Ark of the true Al {pre. Ahl}, and Oʹbed-eʹdom and Ye·hyʹah also served as gatekeepers for the Ark.
25 Then David and the elders of Isra'Al and the chiefs of the thousands were walking along to bring the ark of the covenant of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} up from the house of Oʹbed-eʹdom with rejoicing. 26 When the true Al {pre. Ahl} helped the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah}, they sacrificed seven young bulls and seven rams. 27 David was dressed in a sleeveless coat of fine fabric, as were all the Levites carrying the Ark, the singers, and Chen·a·nyʹah the chief of the transport and the singers; David was also wearing a linen ephʹod. 28 All the Isra'Al·ites were bringing up the ark of the covenant of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} with joyful shouting, with the sound of the horn, with trumpets, with cymbals, playing loudly on stringed instruments and harps.
29 But when the ark of the covenant of Ahv'ah {Heb. Yahvah} came to the City of David, Saul’s daughter Miʹchal looked down through the window and saw King David skipping about and celebrating; and she began to despise him in her heart.