Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi.
These are the Levites’ families according to their fathers:

Their relatives, the Levites, were assigned to all the service of the tabernacle, God’s temple.

So the Israelites gave these towns and their pasturelands to the Levites.

The first to live in their towns on their own property again were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.

The Levites: Shemaiah son of Hasshub, son of Azrikam, son of Hashabiah of the Merarites;

he was previously stationed at the King’s Gate on the east side. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the Levites.

but the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of God’s temple.

A Levite called Mattithiah, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.

The singers, the heads of the Levite families, stayed in the temple chambers and were exempt from other tasks because they were on duty day and night.

These were the heads of the Levite families, chiefs according to their genealogies, and lived in Jerusalem.

From the Levites: 4,600

Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the Lord our God, let us spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands, that they should gather together with us.

Then David said, “No one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, because the Lord has chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister before Him forever.”

Then he gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.

He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.

For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”

So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

Then the Levites carried the ark of God the way Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord: on their shoulders with the poles.

Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from their relatives the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah.

Chenaniah, the leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music because he was skillful.

While the Levites were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with God’s help, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the music leader of the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.

David appointed some of the Levites to be ministers before the ark of the Lord, to celebrate the Lord God of Israel, and to give thanks and praise to Him.

Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites.

The Levites 30 years old or more were counted; the total number of men was 38,000 by headcount.

Also, the Levites no longer need to carry the tabernacle or any of the equipment for its service”—

for according to the last words of David, the Levites 20 years old or more were to be counted—

The secretary, Shemaiah son of Nethanel, a Levite, recorded them in the presence of the king and the officers, Zadok the priest, Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites. One ancestral house was taken for Eleazar, and then one for Ithamar.

Mushi’s sons: Mahli, Eder, and Jerimoth.

Those were the sons of the Levites according to their ancestral houses.

They also cast lots the same way as their relatives the sons of Aaron did in the presence of King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the families of the priests and Levites—the family heads and their younger brothers alike.

There were six Levites each day on the east, four each day on the north, four each day on the south, and two pair at the storehouses.

From the Levites, Ahijah was in charge of the treasuries of God’s temple and the treasuries of what had been dedicated.

for the Levites, Hashabiah son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;

Also included were plans for the divisions of the priests and the Levites; all the work of service in the Lord’s house; all the articles of service of the Lord’s house;

Here are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of God’s house. Every willing man of any skill will be at your disposal for the work, and the leaders and all the people are at your every command.”