¹³ So David would not move the ark with him into the City of David, but took it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

⁴ Moreover the sons of ^(A)Obed-Edom were Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

¹⁸ and with them their brethren of the second rank: Zechariah, ^[a]Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the gatekeepers;

⁸ All these were of the sons of Obed-Edom, they and their sons and their brethren, ^(A)able men with strength for the work: sixty-two of Obed-Edom.

⁵ Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then ^(A)Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals;

¹⁰ So David would not move the ark of the Lord with him into the ^(A)City of David; but David took it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the ^(B)Gittite. ^11 (C)The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months. And the Lord ^(D)blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

³ because the Beerothites fled to ^(A)Gittaim and have been sojourners there until this day.)