1 Chronicles 15:4-16 ▼

4 And David gathers the sons of Aaron and the Levites—

5 of sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers;

6 of sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers;

7 of sons of Gershom: Joel the chief and one hundred and thirty of his brothers;

8 of sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers;

9 of sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers;

10 of sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief and one hundred and twelve of his brothers.

11 And David calls to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, and to the Levites, to Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

12 and says to them, “You [are] heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your brothers, and you have brought up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel, to [the place] I have prepared for it;

13 because you [did] not [do it] at the first, our God YHWH made a breach on us, because we did not seek Him according to the ordinance.”

14 And the priests and the Levites sanctify themselves to bring up the Ark of YHWH, God of Israel;

15 and sons of the Levites carry the Ark of God, as Moses commanded, according to the word of YHWH, above them with poles on their shoulder.

16 And David says to the heads of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of song, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, sounding, to lift up with the voice for joy.