20. Zechariah, Jaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were appointed to play harps according to alamoth.
21. Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were appointed to play lyres and to conduct the sheminith.
22. Chenaniah, a Levite leader, instructed others how to sing prophetic songs because he was skilled at it.
23. Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark.
24. The priests Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer blew trumpets in front of God’s ark. Obed Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
25. So David, the leaders of Israel, and the army’s commanders joyfully went to get the ark of the Lord’s promise from Obed Edom’s house.
26. Because God helped the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s promise, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.
27. David was dressed in a fine linen robe, as were all the Levites who carried the ark, the ⌊Levites who were⌋ singers, and Chenaniah, the leader of the musicians’ prophetic songs. David also wore a linen ephod.
28. All Israel brought the ark of the Lord’s promise with shouts of joy and the sounding of rams’ horns, trumpets, cymbals, harps, and lyres.
29. When the ark of the Lord’s promise came to the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out of a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, so she despised him.