16 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,^[a] and a raisin cake to every Israelite man and woman.

David establishes worship

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; ⁶ and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blowing trumpets regularly before the chest containing God’s covenant.