1 Chronicles 15:4

1 Chronicles 15:4

2 Then David said, “No one may carry the ^aark of God but the Levites, for ^bthe Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of God and to minister before Him forever.”

3 And David ^agathered all Israel together at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.

4 Then David assembled the children of Aaron and the Levites:

5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and one hundred and twenty of his¹ brethren;

6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and two hundred and twenty of his brethren;

7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and one hundred and thirty of his brethren;

8 of the sons of ^aElizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and two hundred of his brethren;

9 of the sons of ^aHebron, Eliel the chief, and eighty of his brethren;

10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and one hundred and twelve of his brethren.

11 And David called for ^aZadok and ^bAbiathar the priests, and for the Levites: for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

12 He said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites—The children of Aaron were the two priests (I Chronicles 15:11), Zadok and Abiathar, heads of the two priestly houses of Eleazar and Ithamar, and colleagues in the high priesthood (II Samuel 20:25). The Levites were the chiefs of their father's house (I Chronicles 15:12); four belonging to the Kohathite branch, on whose shoulders the ark was to be borne; namely, Uriel, Shemaiah—descended from Elizaphan or Elzaphan— (Exodus 6:22), Hebron (Exodus 6:18; I Chronicles 6:2), and Amminadab from Uzziel (Exodus 6:22).

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