2 Samuel 6:5
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5 David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all their might, with songs[a] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.(A)
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- 6.5 Q ms Gk: MT fir trees
1 Chronicles 13:8
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8 David and all Israel were dancing before God with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.(A)
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Psalm 150:3-5
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3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!(A)
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!(B)
5 Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!(C)
1 Samuel 18:6-7
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6 As they were coming home, when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.[a](A) 7 And the women sang to one another as they made merry,
“Saul has killed his thousands
and David his ten thousands.”(B)
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- 18.6 Or triangles or three-stringed instruments
Amos 6:5
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5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David improvise on instruments of music,(A)
Amos 5:23
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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
Daniel 3:15
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15 Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you should fall down and worship the statue that I have made. But if you do not worship, you shall immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire, and who is the god who will deliver you out of my hands?”(A)
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Daniel 3:10
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10 You, O king, have made a decree, that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, shall fall down and worship the golden statue,(A)
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Daniel 3:7
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7 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum,[a] and entire musical ensemble, all the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.(A)
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- 3.7 Aram mss Gk Vg: MT lacks drum
Daniel 3:5
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5 that when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you are to fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.(A)
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Psalm 68:25-27
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25 the singers in front, the musicians last,
between them young women playing tambourines:(A)
26 “Bless God in the great congregation,
the Lord, O you who are of Israel’s fountain!”(B)
27 There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead,
the princes of Judah in a body,
the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.(C)
Psalm 47:5
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5 God has gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.(A)
1 Chronicles 15:10-24
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10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with one hundred twelve of his kindred.
11 David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.(A) 12 He said to them, “You are the heads of families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your kindred, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.(B) 13 Because you did not carry it[a] the first time,[b] the Lord our God burst out against us because we did not give it proper care.”(C) 14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.(D) 15 And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.(E)
16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their kindred as singers to raise loud sounds of joy on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals.(F) 17 So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; and of his kindred Asaph son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their kindred, Ethan son of Kushaiah;(G) 18 and with them their kindred of the second order, Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel. 19 The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound bronze cymbals; 20 Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth, 21 but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to the Sheminith.[c] 22 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music, for he understood it. 23 Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark. 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah also were to be gatekeepers for the ark.(H)
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2 Kings 3:15
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15 But get me a musician.” And then, while the musician was playing, the hand of the Lord came on him.(A)
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1 Samuel 16:16
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16 Let our lord now command the servants who attend you to look for someone who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the evil spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will feel better.”(A)
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1 Samuel 10:5
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5 After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim,[a] at the place where the Philistine garrison is; there, as you come to the town, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the shrine with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre playing in front of them; they will be in a prophetic frenzy.(A)
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- 10.5 Or the hill of God
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