<t /><p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy<n id="1" /> everything from the face of the earth,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah. The sons of Asaph were supervised by Asaph, who prophesied under the king&#8217;s supervision.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Serving beside him was his fellow Levite Asaph,<n id="1" /> son of Berechiah, son of Shimea,

<p class="bodytext">The singers: the descendants of Asaph: 128.p>

<p class="bodytext">The singers:p> <p class="bodytext">the descendants of Asaph, 148.p>

She became pregnant<n id="1" /> and gave birth to a son. Then she said, &#8220;God has taken away my shame.&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The musicians Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;

<p class="poetry">Your plunder<n id="1" /> disappears as if locusts were eating it;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">they swarm over it like locusts!<n id="3" />p>

Moses said, &#8220;As you wish!<n id="1" /> I will not see your face again.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Bakbakkar; Heresh; Galal; Mattaniah son of Mika, son of Zikri, son of Asaph;

<t /><p class="bodytext">That day David first gave to Asaph and his colleagues this song of thanks to the <sc>Lordsc>:p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The divisions of the gatekeepers:p> <p class="bodytext">From the Korahites: Meshelemiah, son of Kore, one of the sons of Asaph.p>

<p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Elizaphan: Shimri and Jeiel;p> <p class="bodytext">from the descendants of Asaph: Zechariah and Mattaniah;p>

<p class="poetry">In a year&#8217;s time<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you carefree ones will shake with fear,p> <p class="poetry">for the grape<n id="2" /> harvest will fail,p> <p class="poetry">and the fruit harvest will not arrive.p>

<p class="poetry">add the pieces of meat to it,p> <p class="poetry">every good piece,p> <p class="poetry">the thigh and the shoulder;p> <p class="poetry">fill it with choice bones.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will destroy people and animals;p> <p class="poetry">I will destroy the birds in the skyp> <p class="poetry">and the fish in the sea.p> <p class="poetry">(The idolatrous images of these creatures will be destroyed along with evil people.)<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I will remove<n id="2" /> humanity from the face of the earth,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">And from there they traveled<n id="1" /> to Beer;<n id="2" /> that is the well where the <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Moses, &#8220;Gather the people and I will give them water.&#8221;

So now assemble the rest of the army<n id="1" /> and besiege the city and capture it. Otherwise I will capture the city and it will be named for me.&#8221;p>

They summoned the king, so Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet them.p>

So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; one of his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; one of the descendants of Merari,<n id="1" /> Ethan son of Kushaiah;