2 Chronicles 35:1-3 - Josiah celebrated the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem, and the Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. He appointed the priests to their duties and encouraged them in the service of the LORD's temple. He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
This implies that the ark was not in the temple and that it was (regularly?) carried on the shoulders of the Levites. I wonder if it was carried when and where it should not have been. Did they use it in parades like we have marchers carry a flag today? I wonder where else they might have carried it. Was it just into the courtyard or the outer part of the temple? In any case, it sounds as if it wasn't being put to its designated use in its designated place.
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