¹⁶ Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to tell them to raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments – harps, lyres, and cymbals.^(A)

⁶ All these men were under their own fathers’ authority for the music in the Lord’s temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king’s authority.