← 1 Chronicles
- A. 1 David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God
- B. 2 None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites
- B'. 2 the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever
- A'. 3 David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it
- A''. 4-10 Lists of Levite families (Kohath, Merari, Gershom, Elizaphan, Hebron, Uzziel)
- B. 11-12 priests, and for the Levites...sanctify yourselves...bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel
- C. 13 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
- B'. 14 priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel
- A'. 15 children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded