1 Chronicles 15:12-14

Amplified Bible

¹² and he said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves, both you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it. ¹³ Because you did not [carry it as God directed] the first time, the Lord our God made an [angry] outburst against us, for we did not seek Him in accordance with the ordinance.”^{(A) 14} So the priests and the Levites consecrated (dedicated) themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.