New American Standard Bible

1 Chronicles 15:9-18 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

9. of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and 80 of his relatives;

10. of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.

11. Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab,

12. and said to them, "You are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place that I have prepared for it.

13. Because you did not carry it at the first, the Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance."

14. So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

15. The sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

16. Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

17. So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,

18. and with them their relatives of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.