1 Chronicles 16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹ They  brought the ark of God and placed it inside the tent David had pitched for it.  Then they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings in God’s presence.

² When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord.

³ Then he distributed to each and every Israelite, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake.

⁴ 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.

⁵ Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals

⁶ and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

David’s Psalm of Thanksgiving

⁷ On that day David decreed for the first time that thanks be given to the Lord by Asaph and his relatives:

⁸ Give thanks  to the Lord; call on his name; proclaim his deeds among the peoples.

⁹ Sing to him; sing praise to him; tell about all his wondrous works!

¹⁰ Boast in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the  Lord  rejoice.

¹¹ Seek the  Lord and his strength; seek his face always.

¹² Remember the wondrous works he has done, his wonders, and the judgements he has pronounced,  ,

¹³ you offspring of Israel his servant, Jacob’s descendants #– #his chosen ones.

¹⁴ He is the  Lord our God; his judgements govern the whole earth.

¹⁵ Remember his covenant for ever – the promise he ordained for a thousand generations,

¹⁶ the covenant he made with Abraham, swore  to Isaac,

¹⁷ and confirmed to Jacob as a decree, and to Israel as a permanent covenant:

¹⁸ ‘I will give the land of Canaan to you as your inherited portion.’

¹⁹ When they  were few in number, very few indeed,  and resident foreigners in Canaan

²⁰ wandering from nation to nation and from one kingdom to another,

²¹ he allowed no one to oppress them; he rebuked kings on their behalf:

²² ‘Do not touch my anointed ones or harm my prophets.’

²³ Let the whole earth sing  to the  Lord. Proclaim his salvation from day to day.

²⁴ Declare his glory among the nations, his wondrous works among all peoples.

²⁵ For the  Lord is great and highly praised; he is feared above all gods.

²⁶ For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols, but the Lord made the heavens.

²⁷ Splendour and majesty are before him; strength and joy are in his place.

²⁸ Ascribe to the  Lord, families of the peoples, ascribe to the  Lord glory and strength.

²⁹ Ascribe to the Lord the glory of his name; bring an offering and come before him. Worship the  Lord in the splendour of his holiness;

³⁰ let the whole earth tremble  before him. The world is firmly established; it cannot be shaken.

³¹ Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice, and let them say among the nations, ‘The  Lord reigns! ’

³² Let the sea and all that fills it resound; let the fields and everything in them exult.

³³ Then the trees of the forest will shout for joy before the  Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth.

³⁴ Give thanks to the  Lord, for he is good; his faithful love endures for ever.

³⁵ And say,  ‘Save us, God of our salvation; gather us and rescue us from the nations so that we may give thanks to your holy name and rejoice in your praise.

³⁶ Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting.’ Then all the people said, ‘Amen’ and ‘Praise the Lord.’

³⁷ So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to minister regularly  before the ark according to the daily requirements.

³⁸ He assigned Obed-edom  and his  sixty-eight relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah  were to be gatekeepers.

³⁹ David left the priest Zadok and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place in Gibeon

⁴⁰ to offer burnt offerings regularly, morning and evening, to the Lord on the altar of burnt offerings and to do everything that was written in the law of the Lord, which he had commanded Israel to keep.

⁴¹ With them were Heman,  Jeduthun, and the rest who were chosen and designated by name  to give thanks to the Lord  #– #for his faithful love endures for ever.

⁴² Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God.  Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.

⁴³ Then all the people went home, and David returned home to bless his household.