1 Chronicles 15:16 meaning and explanation

David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 15:16, Berean Standard Bible

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David is organizing the procession that will carry the ark into Jerusalem, and having just corrected the earlier mistake by assigning the Levites to carry it, he now turns to worship. He instructs the Levite leaders to appoint singers from their own families, backed by harps, lyres and cymbals, so that the ark's arrival is met with joyful sound rather than fear.

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