16 David now said to the chiefs of the Levites to station their brothers the singers+ with the instruments of song,+ stringed instruments+ and harps+ and cymbals,+ playing aloud to cause a sound of rejoicing to arise.

12 and the Levites+ that were singers belonging to all of them, namely, to Aʹsaph,+ to Heʹman,+ to Je·duʹthun+ and to their sons and to their brothers clothed in fine fabric with cymbals+ and with stringed instruments+ and harps,+ were standing to the east of the altar and along with them priests to [the number of] a hundred and twenty sounding the trumpets;+

11 And the king proceeded to make out of the timbers of the algum trees stairs+ for the house of Jehovah and for the king’s house+ and also harps+ and stringed instruments+ for the singers,+ and the like of them had never been seen before in the land of Judah.