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Summary
David celebrates before the Ark of the Covenant.

II Samuel 6:2-5

6:2. David arose and went, with all the people that were with him of the men of Judah to fetch the ark of God, upon which the name of the Lord of Hosts is invoked, who sits over it upon the cherubims.

6:3. They laid the ark of God upon a new cart: and took it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, and Oza and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart.

Gabaa. . .The hill of Cariathiarim, where the ark had been in the house of Abinadab, from the time of its being restored back by the Philistines.

6:4. When they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.

6:5. But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.