Joshua 3:3

3and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by athe Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.

1 Chronicles 15:11-12

11Then David summoned the priests bZadok and cAbiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites. dConsecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, eto the place that I have prepared for it.

2 Chronicles 17:8-9

8 fand with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah, and Tobadonijah; and with these Levites, the priests Elishama and Jehoram. 9And gthey taught in Judah, having the Book of the Law of the Lord with them. They went about through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

2 Chronicles 29:4-11

4He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east 5and said to them, “Hear me, Levites! Now hconsecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. 6For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They have forsaken him and ihave turned away their faces from the habitation of the Lord and turned their backs. 7They also jshut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel. 8Therefore kthe wrath of the Lord came on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has made them lan object of horror, of astonishment, mand of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. 9For behold, nour fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. 10Now oit is in my heart pto make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, in order that his fierce anger may turn away from us. 11My sons, do not now be negligent, qfor the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”

2 Chronicles 29:15

15They gathered their brothers and rconsecrated themselves and went in as the king had commanded, sby the words of the Lord, tto cleanse the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:27

27Then Hezekiah commanded that the burnt offering be offered on the altar. And when the burnt offering began, uthe song to the Lord began also, and the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 29:30

30And Hezekiah the king and the officials commanded the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. And they sang praises with gladness, and they bowed down and worshiped.

2 Chronicles 30:12

12The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded vby the word of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 31:9-10

9And Hezekiah questioned the priests and the Levites about the heaps. 10Azariah the chief priest, who was wof the house of Zadok, answered him, “Since they began to bring the contributions into the house of the Lord, we have eaten and had enough and have plenty left, xfor the Lord has blessed his people, so that we have this large amount left.”

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