Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 Samuel 5:1
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.
1 Kings 8:1
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
1 Chronicles 13:1-4
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And David consulted with the captains of thousands and hundreds, and with every leader.
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And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
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And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.
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And all the congregation said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
Psalm 132:1-6
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A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:
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How he sware unto the LORD, and vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob;
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Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
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I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids,
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Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
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Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.