1. They brought in God’s chest and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it. Then they brought entirely burned offerings and well-being sacrifices before God.
2. When David had finished offering the entirely burned offerings and the well-being sacrifices, he blessed the people in the Lord’s name
3. and distributed a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a raisin cake to every Israelite man and woman.
4. David appointed some of the Levites to serve before the Lord’s chest in order to remember, to give thanks, and to praise the Lord, Israel’s God:
5. Asaph was the leader, and Zechariah his assistant; also Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel with harps and lyres; Asaph sounding the cymbals;