¹⁶ David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on ^(A)musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. ¹⁷ So the Levites appointed ^(B)Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers ^(C)Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, ^(D)Ethan the son of Kushaiah; ¹⁸ and with them their brothers of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel. ¹⁹ The singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound bronze cymbals; ²⁰ Zechariah, ^(E)Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to ^(F)Alamoth; ²¹ but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, ^(G)Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to ^(H)the Sheminith. ²² Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.