13. For because you didn’t carry it at first, the Lord our God broke out in anger against us, because we didn’t seek him according to the ordinance.”
14. So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.
15. The children of the Levites bore God’s ark on their shoulders with its poles, as Moses commanded according to the Lord’s word.
16. David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
17. So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;
18. and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, the doorkeepers.
19. So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were given cymbals of bronze to sound aloud;
20. and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
21. and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.