1 Chronicles 15:1-3 When David had built houses for himself in the city of David, and prepared the place for the ark of God, and made for it a tabernacle:

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When David had built houses for himself in the city of David, and prepared the place for the ark of God, and made for it a tabernacle: ² then David said, None but the Levites ought to carry the ark of God; for the Lord hath chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever. ³ So when David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring the ark of the Lord to the place which he had prepared for it,