For who has despised the small days? Surely they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet of tin in the hand of Zerubbabel: these are the seven eyes that look upon all the earth.

And for the sons of Aaron you shall make tunics and sashes, and you shall make headpieces for them for honor and glory.

And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover the nakedness of their flesh; they shall reach from the loins to the thighs.

And the king said to Doeg, Turn, and fall upon the priests: and Doeg the Syrian turned, and killed the priests of the Lord in that day, three hundred and five men, all wearing an ephod.

And David [was] clothed with a fine linen robe, and all the Levites [who were] bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the band of singers; also upon David [there was] a robe of fine linen.

And the heads of the Levites [were] Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua; and the sons of Kadmiel, and their brothers over against them, were to sing hymns of praise, according to the commandment of David the man of God, course by course.

[it was] in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Josadak, and in the days of Nehemiah; and Ezra the priest [was] the scribe.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

And you shall sound with them, and all the congregation shall be gathered to the door of the tabernacle of witness.

And you shall sound an alarm, and the camps pitched eastward shall begin to move.

And whenever you shall gather the assembly, you shall sound, but not an alarm.

And if you shall go forth to war in your land against your enemies that are opposed to you, then shall you sound with the trumpets; and you shall be had in remembrance before the Lord, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were sounding with trumpets before the ark of God. And Obed-Edom and Jehiah [were] doorkeepers for the ark of God.

Asaph [was] the chief, and next to him Zechariah, [then] Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, and Obed-Edom; and Jeiel sounded with musical instruments, lutes [and] harps, and Asaph with cymbals.

And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests [sounded] continually with trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God in that day.

And with them [there were] trumpets and cymbals to sound aloud, and musical instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun [were] at the gate.

And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand; Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

And they left there Asaph and his brethren before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to minister before the ark continually, according to the service of each day; from day to day.

And King David and the captains of the army appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who [should] prophesy with harps, lutes, and cymbals; and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.

To Jeduthun [were reckoned] the sons of Jeduthun, Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six after their father Jeduthun, sounding loudly on the harp thanksgiving and praise to the Lord.

All these [were] the sons of Heman the king's chief player in the praises of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons, and three daughters.

And the number of them after their brethren, those instructed to sing to God, everyone that understood [singing] was two hundred and eighty-eight.

And the sons of Asaph the psalm-singers [were] at their post according to the commands of David, and Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, the prophets of the king. Also, the chiefs and the porters of the several gates-it was not for them to stir from the service of the holy things, for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

And these [were the men] whom David set over the service of the singers in the house of the Lord when the ark was at rest.

And these [were the men] that stood, and their sons, of the sons of Kohath: Heman the psalm singer, son of Joel, the son of Samuel,

the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,

the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,

And his brother Asaph, who stood at his right hand; Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,

the son of Ethni, the son of Zerah,

the son of Jahath, the son of Gershon, the son of Levi.

the son of Hashabiah,

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

And he appointed before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, Levites to minister [and] lift up the voice, and to give thanks and praise the Lord God of Israel.

And Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests [sounded] continually with trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God in that day.

and four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand to praise the Lord with instruments which he made to praise the Lord.

And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, and lutes, and harps, according to the commandment of King David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for by the commandment of the Lord the order [was] in the hand of the prophets.

And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.