1 Chronicles 15:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² He said to them, ‘You are the heads of families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your kindred, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. ¹³ Because you did not carry it the first time,^[a] the Lord our God burst out against us, because we did not give it proper care.’ ¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.