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 ^apitched for it a tent. ²Then David said, ^†None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the Lord chosen to carry the ^bark of God, and to minister unto him for ever. ³And David ^cgathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the Lord unto ^dhis place, which he had prepared for it. ⁴And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites: ⁵Of the sons of ^eKohath; Uriel the chief, and his ^||brethren an hundred and twenty: ⁶Of the sons of ^eMerari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: ⁷Of the sons of ^eGershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty: ⁸Of the sons of ^fElizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred: ⁹Of the sons of ^gHebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: ¹⁰Of the sons of ^gUzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

¹¹And David called for ^hZadok and ⁱAbiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for ^jUriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, ¹²And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: ^jjsanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto ^dthe place that I have prepared for it. ¹³For ^kbecause ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God ^lmade a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. ¹⁴So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the ^mstaves thereon, as ⁿMoses commanded according to the word of the Lord. ¹⁶And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, ^opsalteries and ^oharps and ^ocymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy. ¹⁷So the Levites appointed ^pHeman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, ^qAsaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, ^rEthan the son of Kushaiah; ¹⁸And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, ^sBen, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, the porters. ¹⁹So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with ^tcymbals of brass; ²⁰And Zechariah, and ^||Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with ^tpsalteries ^uon Alamoth; ²¹And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and ^sAzaziah, with ^tharps ^||on the Sheminith ^xto excel. ²²And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, ^||was for ^†song: he instructed about the ^†song, because he was skilful. ²³And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark. ²⁴And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow ^ywith the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.