13. Because you were not there to carry it the first time, the Lord our God punished us for not worshipping him as we should have done.”
14. Then the priests and the Levites purified themselves in order to move the Covenant Box of the Lord God of Israel.
15. The Levites carried it on poles on their shoulders, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
16. David commanded the leaders of the Levites to assign various Levites to sing and to play joyful music on harps and cymbals.