1Ch 6:31, 15:16-17, 16:4-5, 2Ch 2:2, 18, 34:12-13, Ezr 3:8-9, Psa 13:1 | ESV | STEP | These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord after the ark rested there.

r[See ver. 8 above]

s[See ver. 8 above]

v Ps. 10:12; 44:24; 74:19, 23; Lam. 5:20

1 Chronicles 6:31

31 These are the men ^awhom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord ^bafter the ark rested there.

1 Chronicles 15:16-17

16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on ^cmusical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. 17 So the Levites appointed ^dHeman the son of Joel; and of his brothers ^eAsaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, ^fEthan the son of Kushaiah;

1 Chronicles 16:4-5

4 Then he appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, to invoke, to thank, and to praise the Lord, the God of Israel. 5 ^gAsaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

2 Chronicles 2:2

2 ^{▼▼Ch 2:1 in Hebrew} ⁱAnd Solomon assigned 70,000 men to bear burdens and 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and ^j3,600 to oversee them.

2 Chronicles 2:18

18 ^kSeventy thousand of them he assigned to bear burdens, 80,000 to quarry in the hill country, and 3,600 as overseers to make the people work.

2 Chronicles 34:12-13

12 And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. ^lThe Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music, 13 were over ^mthe burden-bearers and directed all who did work in every kind of service, and some of the Levites were scribes and officials and gatekeepers.

Ezra 3:8-9

Rebuilding the Temple

8 Now in the second year after their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, ⁿZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and ^oJeshua the son of Jozadak made a beginning, together with the rest of their kinsmen, the priests and the Levites and all who had come to Jerusalem from the captivity. They ^pappointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to ^qsupervise the work of the house of the Lord. 9 And ^rJeshua with his sons and his brothers, and Kadmiel and his sons, the sons of Judah, together ^ssupervised the workmen in the house of God, along with the ^tsons of Henadad and the Levites, their sons and brothers.

Psalms 13:1

How Long, O Lord?

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

1 ^uHow long, O Lord? Will you ^vforget me forever?
How long will you ^whide your face from me?