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11 Then David called for (A)Zadok and (B)Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab, 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; (C)set yourselves apart as holy, both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, (D)to the place that I have prepared for it. 13 (E)Because you did not carry it at the first, Yahweh our God broke out against us, for we did not seek Him according to the legal judgment.”

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11 Then David summoned Zadok(A) and Abiathar(B) the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab the Levites. 12 He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate(C) yourselves and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. 13 It was because you, the Levites,(D) did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us.(E) We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.(F)

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