the courses

2 Chronicles 5:11
Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,

2 Chronicles 8:14
In keeping with the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, and the Levites for their duties to offer praise and to minister before the priests according to the daily requirement. He also appointed gatekeepers by their divisions at each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

2 Chronicles 23:8
So the commanders of hundreds did everything that Jehoiada the priest had ordered. Each of them took his men--those coming on duty on the Sabbath and those going off duty--for Jehoiada the priest had not released any of the divisions.

1 Chronicles 16:37, 40
So David left Asaph and his brothers there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to minister there regularly according to the daily requirements, . . .

1 Chronicles 23:1-26:32
When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel. . . .

Ezra 6:18
They also appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their groups to the service of God in Jerusalem, according to what is written in the book of Moses.

Luke 1:5
In the time of Herod king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.

to give thanks

2 Chronicles 29:24-26
And the priests slaughtered the goats and put their blood on the altar for a sin offering, to make atonement for all Israel, for the king had ordered that the burnt offering and sin offering were for all Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 16:4-6, 41
David appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, to celebrate, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD, the God of Israel. . . .

1 Chronicles 23:30
They were also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the LORD, and likewise in the evening.

1 Chronicles 25:1-3
Additionally, David and the commanders of the army set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun to prophesy with the accompaniment of lyres, harps, and cymbals. The following is the list of the men who performed this service: . . .

Nehemiah 11:17
Mattaniah son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who led in thanksgiving and prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his associates; and Abda son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.

Psalm 134:1-3
Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD! . . .

Psalm 135:1-3
Hallelujah! Praise the name of the LORD. Give praise, O servants of the LORD, . . .

Jeremiah 33:11
the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: 'Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.' For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.

in the gates of the tents of the Lord.