1 Chronicles 15:15-17

Amplified Bible

¹⁵ The Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses commanded in accordance with the word of the Lord.

¹⁶ Then David told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives as the singers, with instruments of music—harps, lyres, and cymbals—to play loudly and to raise sounds of joy [with their voices]. ¹⁷ So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah,