1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the LORD had chosen them to carry the ark of the LORD and to minister to him forever.
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORDto stand before the LORD to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deuteronomy 31:9
Then Moses wrote this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.
Numbers 4:2-15
"Take a census of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their clans and their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4:19-20
but deal thus with them, that they may live and not die when they come near to the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in and appoint them each to his task and to his burden,
Numbers 7:9
But to the sons of Kohath he gave none, because they were charged with the service of the holy things that had to be carried on the shoulder.
Numbers 8:13-14
And you shall set the Levites before Aaron and his sons, and shall offer them as a wave offering to the LORD.
Numbers 8:24-26
"This applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall come to do duty in the service of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 18:1-8
So the LORD said to Aaron, "You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood.
Joshua 3:3
and commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
Joshua 6:6
So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 35:3
And he said to the Levites who taught all Israel and who were holy to the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. You need not carry it on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
Isaiah 66:21
And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the LORD.
Jeremiah 33:17-22
"For thus says the LORD: David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,