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2 Paralipomenon 5:4

And when all the ancients of Israel were come, the Levites took up the ark,

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
Cumque venissent cuncti seniorum Israël, portaverunt Levitæ arcam,
Septuagint (Swete)
καὶ ἦλθον πάντες οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἔλαβον πάντες οἱ Λευεῖται τὴν κιβωτὸν
Hebrew (WLC)
וַיָּבֹ֕אוּ כֹּ֖ל זִקְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּשְׂא֥וּ הַלְוִיִּ֖ם אֶת הָאָרֽוֹן

Haydock's commentary

Levites, with the priests alternately; (3 Kings viii. 2.) or the latter were all Levites, (Calmet) though higher in dignity, in the same manner as our bishops are priests.

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.