1 Chr 14:17 Then the fame of David went out into all the lands; and the LORD brought the fear of him on all the nations.
1 Chr 15:1 Now David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.
1 Chr 15:2 Then David said, "No one is to carry the ark of God but the Levites; for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of God and to minister to Him forever."
1 Chr 15:3 And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to its place which he had prepared for it.
1 Chr 15:4 David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites:
1 Chr 15:5 of the sons of Kohath, Uriel the chief, and 120 of his relatives;
1 Chr 15:6 of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and 220 of his relatives;
1 Chr 15:7 of the sons of Gershom, Joel the chief, and 130 of his relatives;
1 Chr 15:8 of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and 200 of his relatives;
1 Chr 15:9 of the sons of Hebron, Eliel the chief, and 80 of his relatives;
1 Chr 15:10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.
1 Chr 15:11 ¶ Then David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab,
1 Chr 15:12 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.
1 Chr 15:13 "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."
1 Chr 15:14 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
1 Chr 15:15 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.
1 Chr 15:16 ¶ 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.
1 Chr 15:17 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,
1 Chr 15:18 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.
1 Chr 15:19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze;