1 Chronicles 15:14-16

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁴^(A)So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel. ¹⁵The sons of ^(B)the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁶Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites ^(C)to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.