5. The tabernacle. The tabernacle was moved from Gibeon (see 1:3; PK 38).
The priests and the Levites. The task of bearing the ark and the furniture of the tabernacle was assigned to the Kohathites (Num. 3:30, 31; Num. 4:4, 15). Aaron, whose sons were priests, was a descendant of Kohath (1 Chron. 6:2, 3, 54). See further on 1 Kings 8:3, 4.