1 Chronicles 15:1–24

And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.⇉⇇

Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for ↦them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and ↦to minister unto him for ever.⇇

And David ↦gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, ↦to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.⇇

And David assembled ↦the children of Aaron, and the Levites:⇇

Of the sons of Kohath; ↦Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:⇇

Of the sons of ↦Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:⇇

Of the sons of Gershom; ↦Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:⇇

Of the sons of ↦Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:⇇

Of the sons of ↦Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:⇇

Of the sons of ↦Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.⇉⇇

And David called for ↦Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,⇇

And said unto them, ↦Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: ↦sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.⇇

For because ↦ye did it not at the first, ↦the LORD our God made a breach upon us, ↦for that we sought him not after the due order.⇇

So the priests and the Levites ↦sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.⇇

And the children of the Levites ↦bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.⇇

↦And David spake to the ↦chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be ↦the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by ↦lifting up the voice with joy.⇇

So the Levites appointed ↦Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, ↦Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, ↦Ethan the son of Kushaiah;⇇

And with them their brethren of ↦the second degree, ↦Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.⇉⇇

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;⇉⇇

And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;⇉⇇

And ↦Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with ↦harps on the ↦Sheminith to excel.⇇

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: ↦he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.⇉⇇

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.⇉⇇

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.⇉⇇