Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And lo Zadok also, and all the Levites were with him, bearing the ark of the covenant of God: and they set down the ark of God; and Abiathar went up, until all the people had done passing out of the city.
Bible References
Bearing
2 Samuel 6:13
When those who carried the Ark of Jehovah walked six steps, David sacrificed a bull and a fattened calf.
Numbers 4:15
When Aaron and his sons finished covering the holy things and the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry all the holy articles. They must never touch the holy things, or they will die. The Kohathites will carry all the things from the tent of meeting.
Numbers 7:9
However Moses gave none of these gifts to the Kohathites, because they took care of the holy things. They had to carry the holy things on their own shoulders.
Joshua 3:3
They commanded the people, saying: When you see the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, you should leave here and follow it.
Joshua 4:16
Command the priests who carry the Ark of the Testimony that they come up from the Jordan.
Joshua 6:4
Seven priests will carry before you seven trumpets of rams' horns along with the Ark. On the seventh day march around the city seven times. The priests shall blow the trumpets.
1 Samuel 4:3
The army of Israel retreated to their camp. The leaders of Israel asked: Why has Jehovah used the Philistines to defeat us today? Let us get the Ark of Jehovah's Covenant from Shiloh so that he may be with us and save us from our enemies.
1 Chronicles 15:2
David insisted that only the Levites carry God's Ark because Jehovah had chosen them to carry his Ark and to serve him from generation to generation.