As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.