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² And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:

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² 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.

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⁴ And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:

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⁴ And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:

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² And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

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³ Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.

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⁶ And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

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¹⁹ The sons of Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers.

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⁴⁸ Their brethren also the Levites were appointed unto all manner of service of the tabernacle of the house of God.

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⁶⁴ And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities with their suburbs.

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¹⁴ And of the Levites; Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

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²⁶ For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

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³¹ And Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the set office over the things that were made in the pans.

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³³ And these are the singers, chief of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free: for they were employed in that work day and night.

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³⁴ These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.

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¹¹ And David called for Zadok and Abiathar the priests, and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah, and Joel, Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Amminadab,

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¹² 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.

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¹⁴ So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.

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¹⁵ 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.

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¹⁶ 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.

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¹⁷ 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;

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

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²⁶ 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.

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²⁷ 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.

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²⁶ And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.

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²⁷ For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

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³⁰ The sons also of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites after the house of their fathers.

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³¹ These likewise cast lots over against their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites, even the principal fathers over against their younger brethren.

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¹⁷ Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two and two.

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²⁰ And of the Levites, Ahijah was over the treasures of the house of God, and over the treasures of the dedicated things.

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¹⁷ Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:

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¹³ Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of the LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house of the LORD.

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²¹ And, behold, the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the house of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skilful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.