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1 Chronicles 15

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David’s Wives and Children
1And David built houses for himself in the city of David, and he established a place for the ark of God. And he pitched a tent for it. 2Then David ordered that none except the Levites should carry the ark of God, for Yahweh had chosen them to carry the ark of Yahweh and to serve him forever. 3And David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem to bring up the ark of Yahweh to its place that he had established for it. 4And David gathered the sons of Aaron and the Levites. 5Of the sons of Kohath: Uriel the chief and one hundred and twenty of his brothers. 6Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief and two hundred and twenty of his brothers. 7Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief and one hundred and thirty of his brothers. 8Of the sons of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and two hundred of his brothers. 9Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief and eighty of his brothers. 10Of the sons of Uzziel: Amminadab the chief and one hundred and twelve of his brothers. 11Then David summoned Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12And he said to them, “You are the heads of the families#Literally “fathers” for the Levites. Sanctify yourselves and your brothers and bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel, to the place I have established for it. 13Because the first time you did not, and Yahweh our God burst out against us, for we did not care for it according to the law.” 14Then the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. 15And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God according to what Moses commanded, according to the word of Yahweh, on their shoulders with the carrying poles upon them.
16Then David ordered the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of song, musical instruments, stringed instruments, and cymbals, raising their voices for joy.#Literally “causing to hear to the mountains with a sound of rejoicing” 17So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel, and from his brothers, Asaph the son of Berekiah, and from the sons of Merari, their brothers, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18and with them their brothers of the second rank, Zechariah the son, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-Edom and Jeiel. 19Now the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals; 20Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play on harps according to Alamoth; 21and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to play lyres, directing according to the Sheminith. 22And Kenaniah, chief of the Levites in singing, was to be an instructor in singing because he understood. 23And Berekiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark. 24And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Elizezer the priests sounded the trumpets#Literally “trumpet blowers with trumpets” before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah were gatekeepers for the ark.
25And it happened that David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of thousands went to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the house of Obed-Edom with joy. 26And it happened that when God helped the Levites carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. 27Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen; so also all the Levites who were carrying the ark, the singers, and Kenaniah the chief of the singing. And David wore a linen ephod. 28And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar,#Or “horn, trumpet” and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments.
29And when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came into the city of David, then Michal the daughter of Saul looked down from the window and saw the king, David, leaping and dancing. And she despised him in her heart.

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