1 Chronicles 15:1–24

¹And he maketh for himself houses in the city of David, and prepareth a place for the ark of God, and stretcheth out for it a tent. ²Then said David, ‘None are to carry the ark of God, except the Levites, for on them hath Jehovah fixed to carry the ark of God, and to serve Him—unto the age.’ ³And David assembleth all Israel unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Jehovah unto its place that he had prepared for it. ⁴And David gathereth the sons of Aaron, and the Levites. ⁵Of sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and twenty. ⁶Of sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred and twenty. ⁷Of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and thirty. ⁸Of sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren, two hundred. ⁹Of sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brethren, eighty. ¹⁰Of sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief, and his brethren, a hundred and twelve. ¹¹And David calleth to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab, ¹²and saith to them, ‘Ye are heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto the place I have prepared for it; ¹³because at the first it was not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.’ ¹⁴And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves, to bring up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel; ¹⁵and sons of the Levites bear the ark of God, as Moses commanded, according to the word of Jehovah, on their shoulder, with staves, above them. ¹⁶And David saith to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy. ¹⁷And the Levites appoint Heman son of Joel, and of his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah, and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah; ¹⁸and with them their brethren, the seconds in rank, Zechariah, Ben, 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 gatekeepers; ¹⁹and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to sound, ²⁰and Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jeheil, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries besides virgins, ²¹and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps, on the octave, to oversee. ²²And Chenaniah, head of the Levites, is over the burden; he instructeth about the burden, for he is intelligent. ²³And Berechiah and Elkanah are gatekeepers for the ark. ²⁴And Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests, are blowing with trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah are gatekeepers for the ark.