1 Chronicles 15:2-24

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 e ." 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. ⁴ David gathered together the sons of Aaron and the Levites : ⁵ of the sons of Kohath , Uriel the chief , and 120 e of his relatives ; ⁶ of the sons of Merari , Asaiah the chief , and 220 e of his relatives ; ⁷ of the sons of Gershom , Joel the chief , and 130 e of his relatives ; ⁸ of the sons of Elizaphan , Shemaiah the chief , and 200 of his relatives ; 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 e e 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 . ¹⁹ So the singers , Heman , Asaph and Ethan were appointed to sound aloud cymbals of bronze ; ²⁰ and Zechariah , Aziel , Shemiramoth , Jehiel , Unni , Eliab , Maaseiah and Benaiah , with harps tuned to alamoth ; ²¹ and Mattithiah , Eliphelehu , Mikneiah , Obed-edom , Jeiel and Azaziah , to lead with lyres tuned to the sheminith . ²² Chenaniah , chief of the Levites , was in charge of the singing ; he gave instruction in singing because he was skillful . ²³ Berechiah and Elkanah were gatekeepers for the ark . ²⁴ Shebaniah , Joshaphat , Nethanel , Amasai , Zechariah , Benaiah and Eliezer , the priests , blew the trumpets before the ark of God . Obed-edom and Jehiah also were gatekeepers for the ark .