The Levites took up the ark — that is, those Levites who were also priests (compare 2 Chronicles 5:7; 1 Kings 8:3).<…

The Levites. —Kings has the priests; and so do the Syriac and Arabic versions here; but the Septuagint and Vulgate have <…

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

The ark was a type of Christ, and, as such, a token of the presence of God. That gracious promise, Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end o…