¹⁶ Then David spoke to the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers accompanied by instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, by raising the voice with resounding joy.

The Musicians

25 Moreover David and the captains of the army separated for the service some of the sons of ^(A)Asaph, of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, stringed instruments, and cymbals. And the number of the skilled men performing their service was:

⁶ All these were under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and ^(A)harps, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were ^(B)under the authority of the king.

^28 (A)Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps.

¹⁹ the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were to sound the cymbals of bronze;

⁵ Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, then ^(A)Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom: Jeiel with stringed instruments and harps, but Asaph made music with cymbals;

⁵ Then David and all the house of Israel ^(A)played music before the Lord on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.

⁸ Then ^(A)David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with ^[a]singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.