¹⁶ Then David said to the chiefs of the Levites ^(A)to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise a sound of gladness.

⁵ and 4,000 were gatekeepers, and ^(A)4,000 were praising Yahweh with the instruments which ^[a]David made for giving praise.