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## 1 Chronicles 15:1-3 in Context (Verses 1–6 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/1) And *David* made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/2) Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.*
 
 [3 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/3) And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/4) And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
 
 [5 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/5) Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:*
 
 [6 ](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/6) Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
 
[1 Chronicles 14](/kjv/1-chronicles/14) [1 Chronicles 16](/kjv/1-chronicles/16)

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