4. And David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
5. Of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, with 120 kinsmen;
6. Of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, with 220 kinsmen;
7. Of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, with 130 kinsmen;
8. Of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, with 200 kinsmen;
9. Of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, with 80 kinsmen;
10. Of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 kinsmen.
11. And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites–Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab,
12. And said to them, You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, both you and your brethren, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.
13. For because you bore it not [as God directed] at the first, the Lord our God broke forth upon us–because we did not seek Him in the way He ordained. [Num. 1:50; I Chron. 13:7-10.]
14. So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
15. The Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses commanded by the word of the Lord.
16. David told the chief Levites to appoint their brethren the singers with instruments of music–harps, lyres, and cymbals–to play loudly and lift up their voices with joy.
17. So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan son of Kushaiah;
18. And with them their brethren of the second class: Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and also the gatekeepers, Obed-edom and Jeiel.
19. So the singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound bronze cymbals;
20. Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps [resembling guitars] set to Alamoth [probably the treble voice];
21. Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres set to Sheminith [the bass voice].
22. Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in singing, was put in charge of carrying the ark and lifting up song. He instructed about these matters because he was skilled and able.
23. Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.
24. Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-edom and Jehiah (Jeiel) were also gatekeepers for the ark.