Music Ministry Appointments

¹⁶ David also told the leaders of the descendants of Levi to appoint their relatives as singers, to play musical instruments such as harps, lyres, and cymbals, and to keep sounding aloud with joyful voices. ¹⁷ So the descendants of Levi appointed Joel’s son Heman, his relative Berechiah’s son Asaph, as well as certain^[a] relatives of Merari’s sons, including^[b] Kushaiah’s son Ethan, ¹⁸ their second order relatives^[c] Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, as well as the trustees^[d] Obed-edom and Jeiel.