Organized Worship

From Nehemiah 10-12~

The singers and the singing were a very important part of Israel and their worship.

'Asaph, who began the thanksgiving with prayer,
Matthaniah, who led the thanksgiving psalms,
The heads of the Levites, with their brothers across from them,
to praise and give thanks;
group alternating with group~
to celebrate~
both with thanksgiving and singing,
the singers built for themselves villages
all around Jerusalem~
had appointed two large thanksgiving choirs,
one went to the right hand and on the wall,
the other thanksgiving choir went the opposite way.
So the two thanksgiving choirs stood in the house of God.
The singers sang loudly, with Jezrahiah the director.
In the days of David and Asaph of old,
there were chiefs of the singers,
and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God,
offerings~~~to the storerooms,~~
where the singers were.'

They singers were supported the same as the Levites.