²¹ So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and take it up to you.”^(A)

7 ¹ And the people of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the Lord and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. They consecrated his son, Eleazar, to have charge of the ark of the Lord.^(A)

David Brings the Ark to Jerusalem

6 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.

³ David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had prepared for it.^(A)