1 Chronicles 15

About 1 Chronicles 1 Chronicles retells Israel's history from Adam to David, focusing on David and the worship of God.

And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.Selected1 Chronicles 15:1Ask

Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever.Selected1 Chronicles 15:2Ask

And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.Selected1 Chronicles 15:3Ask

And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:Selected1 Chronicles 15:4Ask

Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:Selected1 Chronicles 15:5Ask

Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:Selected1 Chronicles 15:6Ask

Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:Selected1 Chronicles 15:7Ask

Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:Selected1 Chronicles 15:8Ask

Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:Selected1 Chronicles 15:9Ask

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.Selected1 Chronicles 15:10Ask

And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,Selected1 Chronicles 15:11Ask

And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.Selected1 Chronicles 15:12Ask

For because ye did it not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order.Selected1 Chronicles 15:13Ask

So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.Selected1 Chronicles 15:14Ask

And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.Selected1 Chronicles 15:15Ask

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.Selected1 Chronicles 15:16Ask

So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;Selected1 Chronicles 15:17Ask

And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.Selected1 Chronicles 15:18Ask

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;Selected1 Chronicles 15:19Ask

And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;Selected1 Chronicles 15:20Ask

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.Selected1 Chronicles 15:21Ask

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.Selected1 Chronicles 15:22Ask

And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.Selected1 Chronicles 15:23Ask

And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.Selected1 Chronicles 15:24Ask

So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.Selected1 Chronicles 15:25Ask

And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.Selected1 Chronicles 15:26Ask

And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.Selected1 Chronicles 15:27Ask

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.Selected1 Chronicles 15:28Ask

And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.Selected1 Chronicles 15:29Ask

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