^{11 Ref} David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

^{12 Ref} and said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both you and your brothers, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to [the place] that I have prepared for it.

^{13 Ref} For because you didn't carry it at the first, Yahweh our God made a breach on us, because we didn't seek him according to the ordinance.

^{14 Ref} So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

^{15 Ref} The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh.