Each day men came to help David until his army became very large.

Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Announce every day how he delivers!

Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.

They spent three days feasting there with David, for their relatives had given them provisions.

and defeated the rest of the Amalekite refugees; they live there to this very day.

That day David first gave to Asaph and his colleagues this song of thanks to the Lord:

Each day there were six Levites posted on the east, four on the north, and four on the south. At the storehouses they were posted in pairs.

David left Asaph and his colleagues there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to serve before the ark regularly and fulfill each day’s requirements,

Their relatives, who lived in their settlements, came from time to time and served with them for seven-day periods.

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

David was afraid of God that day and said, “How will I ever be able to bring the ark of God up here?”

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day.

For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places.

I will establish his kingdom permanently, if he remains committed to obeying my commands and regulations, as you are doing this day.’

all the warriors went and recovered the bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried their remains under the oak tree in Jabesh and fasted for seven days.

The next day they made sacrifices and offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord (1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs), along with their accompanying drink offerings and many other sacrifices for all Israel.

They held a feast before the Lord that day and celebrated. Then they designated Solomon, David’s son, as king a second time; before the Lord they anointed him as ruler and Zadok as priest.

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

The men whose names are listed came during the time of King Hezekiah of Judah and attacked the Hamites’ settlements, as well as the Meunites they discovered there, and they wiped them out to this very day. They dispossessed them, for they found pasture for their sheep there.