13. When you weren’t with us the first time, the Lord our God burst out against us because we didn’t ask his advice properly."
14. So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to bring up the chest of the Lord, Israel’s God.
15. The Levites carried God’s chest with poles on their shoulders, just as Moses had commanded according to the Lord’s word.
16. Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as singers to raise their voices joyfully, accompanied by musical instruments, including harps, lyres, and cymbals.
17. So the Levites appointed Heman, Joel’s son; and from his relatives, Asaph, Berechiah’s son; and from their Merarite relatives, Ethan, Kushaiah’s son;