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The sons of Judah, bearing shield and spear, were six thousand, eight hundred, armed for war.

Of the sons of Simeon, mighty ones of valor for the war, seven thousand, one hundred.

And of the sons of Benjamin, Saul's brothers, were three thousand. For before, the most of them had kept their allegiance to the house of Saul.

And from beyond the Jordan: of the Reubenites, and of the Gadites, and of the half tribe of Manasseh, with all of the weapons of war for battle were a hundred and twenty thousand.

And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking. For their brothers had prepared for them.

And we shall bring around to us the ark of our God, for we did not seek Him in the days of Saul.

And all the congregation said to do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

And when they came to the threshing-floor of Chidon, then Uzza put out his hand to take hold of the ark, for the oxen stumbled.

And it burned to David, for Jehovah had broken a breach against Uzza; and he called that place, The Breach of Uzza to this day.

And Hiram the king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and masons, and carpenters, to build a house for him.

And David saw that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, for his kingdom was exalted to a height, for the sake of His people Israel.

And it shall be, when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the weeping trees, then you shall go out in the battle; for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.

And he built houses for himself in the City of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and stretched out a tent for it.

Then David said, None should bear the ark of God except the Levites, for Jehovah had chosen them to bear the ark of God, and to serve Him forever.

And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah to its place that he had prepared for it.

and said to them, You are the heads of your fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you shall bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it.

Because you did not do so at the first, Jehovah our God broke in against us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance.

And David commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and sounding cymbals, to lift up the voice for joy.

And Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests were blowing with the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark.