Study Desk

They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and they presented burnt offerings and fellowship offerings ^(F88) before God.

After David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD .

Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each Israelite man and woman.

He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the LORD , to make petition, to give thanks, and to praise the LORD , the God of Israel:

Asaph was the chief, Zechariah second, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests were to blow the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.