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And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark.

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

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

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.

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;

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.

Of the sons of Hebron; Eliel the chief, and his brethren fourscore:

Of the sons of Elizaphan; Shemaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred:

Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:

Of the sons of Kohath; Uriel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twenty:

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

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.

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.

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.

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.

In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother"s name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.

In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign.