1 Chronicles 15:2
Then David ordered [that] none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever.
Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time Yahweh set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to stand {before} Yahweh, to serve him and to bless [the people] in his name until this day.
Deuteronomy 31:9
So Moses wrote this law, and he gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, the [ones] carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.
Numbers 4:2-15
"{Take a census} of the descendants of Kohath from the midst of the descendants of Levi, according to their clans and {their families},
Numbers 4:19-20
Do this to them and they will live and not die when they come near the most holy things. Aaron and his sons will go and appoint them, each one to his task and burden.
Numbers 7:9
But to the descendants of Kohath he did not give [anything] because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders.
Numbers 8:13-14
And you will present the Levites {before} Aaron and {before} his sons, and he {will offer} them [as] a wave offering to Yahweh.
Numbers 8:24-26
"This [is] what is for the Levites: {those twenty-five years old} and above will come to help [with the] service in the work of the tent of assembly;
Numbers 18:1-8
Yahweh said to Aaron, "You, your sons, and your family with you will bear the guilt of the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you will bear the guilt of your priesthood.
Joshua 3:3
and they commanded the people: "When you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God you must set out from your place and go after it.
Joshua 6:6
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."
2 Chronicles 35:3
And he said to the Levites who [were] teaching all Israel, who were sanctified to Yahweh, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built. There is no [need] to carry it on [your] shoulders. Now serve Yahweh your God and his people Israel.
Isaiah 66:21
And indeed, I will take some of them as priests [and] the Levites," says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 33:17-22
For thus says Yahweh: 'A man who sits on the throne of the house of Israel will not be cut off for David.