|
Chapter 15 |
| 1 | And David made
him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and
pitched for it a tent. |
| 2 | Then David said, None ought to carry the ark
of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God,
and to minister unto him for ever. |
| 3 | And David gathered all Israel
together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he
had prepared for it. |
| 4 | And David assembled the children of Aaron,
and the Levites: |
|
5 | Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his
brethren an hundred and twenty: |
| 6 | Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah
the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty: |
| 7 | Of the sons of
Gershom; Joel the chief and his brethren an hundred and thirty: |
| 8 | Of the
sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred: |
| 9 |
Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore: |
| 10 |
Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and
twelve. |
| 11
| And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and
for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and
Amminadab, |
| 12
| And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of
the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring
up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for
it. |
| 13 |
For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made
a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. |
| 14 |
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the
LORD God of Israel. |
| 15 | And the children of the Levites bare the ark
of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded
according to the word of the LORD. |
| 16 | And David spake to the chief
of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of
music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with
joy. |
| 17 |
So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his
brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren,
Ethan the son of Kushaiah; |
|
18 | And with them their brethren of the
second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and
Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and
Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters. |
| 19 | So the
singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of
brass; |
| 20
| And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel,
and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on
Alamoth; |
| 21
| And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and
Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
|
| 22 | And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about
the song, because he was skillful. |
| 23 | And Berechiah and Elkanah
were doorkeepers for the ark. |
|
24 | And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and
Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests,
did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were
doorkeepers for the ark. |
|
25 | So David, and the elders of Israel,
and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy. |
| 26 | And it came
to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the
LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. |
| 27 | And David
was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark,
and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David
also had upon him an ephod of linen. |
| 28 | Thus all Israel brought up
the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the
cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and
harps. |
| 29
| And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the
LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out
at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her
heart. |
