doubt as to where they were to be found: when eventually it was brought to Jerusalem, ‘the Levites carried the ark of God upon their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the LORD’ (15:15).11 As the ark dates back to Moses’ time, so do the regulations about it; and to implement them David calls on the Levites, who trace their family lines back to that same period and beyond. Even in these days of built-in obsolescence, most of us have household appliances which