1 Chronicles 13:8
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8 And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and (A)lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
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Amos 6:5
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5 (A)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David (B)invent for themselves instruments of music,
Amos 5:23
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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
to (A)the melody of your harps I will not listen.
Daniel 3:5-7
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5 that when you hear the (A)sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, you (B)are to fall down and worship the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 6 And whoever does not fall down and worship shall immediately (C)be cast into a burning fiery furnace.” 7 Therefore, as soon as all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, bagpipe, and every kind of music, all (D)the peoples, nations, and languages fell down and worshiped the golden image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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Psalm 68:25-27
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25 (A)the singers in front, (B)the musicians last,
between them (C)virgins playing tambourines:
26 (D)“Bless God in the great congregation,
the Lord, O you[a] who are of (E)Israel's fountain!”
27 There is (F)Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead,
the princes of Judah in their throng,
the princes of (G)Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali.
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- Psalm 68:26 The Hebrew for you is plural here
Psalm 47:5
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5 God (A)has gone up with a shout,
the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
1 Chronicles 25:1-6
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David Organizes the Musicians
25 David and the chiefs of the service also set apart for the service the sons of (A)Asaph, and of (B)Heman, and of (C)Jeduthun, who (D)prophesied with lyres, with (E)harps, and with cymbals. The list of those who did the work and of their duties was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah, sons of Asaph, under the direction of Asaph, who (F)prophesied under the direction of the king. 3 Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei,[a] Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, (G)who prophesied with the lyre in thanksgiving and praise to the Lord. 4 Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. 5 All these were the sons of Heman (H)the king's seer, according to the promise of God to exalt him, for God had given Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, (I)harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.
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- 1 Chronicles 25:3 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts lack Shimei
1 Chronicles 23:5
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5 4,000 gatekeepers, and 4,000 shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments (A)that I have made for praise.”
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1 Chronicles 16:42
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42 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments (A)for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
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1 Chronicles 16:5
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5 (A)Asaph was the chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, who were to play harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,
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1 Chronicles 15:28
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28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, to the sound of the horn, (A)trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on (B)harps and lyres.
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1 Chronicles 15:10-24
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10 of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, with 112 of his brothers. 11 Then David summoned the priests (A)Zadok and (B)Abiathar, and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab, 12 and said to them, “You are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites. (C)Consecrate yourselves, you and your brothers, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, (D)to the place that I have prepared for it. 13 (E)Because you did not carry it the first time, the Lord our God broke out against us, because we did not seek him according to the rule.” 14 So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders (F)with the poles, (G)as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on (H)musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. 17 So the Levites appointed (I)Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers (J)Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari, their brothers, (K)Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18 and with them their brothers 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, (L)Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to (M)Alamoth; 21 but Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, (N)Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead with lyres according to (O)the Sheminith. 22 Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should 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, should (P)blow the trumpets before the ark of God. (Q)Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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2 Kings 3:15
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15 But now (A)bring me a musician.” And when the musician played, (B)the hand of the Lord came upon him.
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2 Samuel 6:5-23
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Uzzah and the Ark
5 And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with (A)songs[a] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals. 6 And when they came to the threshing floor of (B)Nacon, Uzzah (C)put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and (D)God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God. 8 And David was angry because the Lord had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah[b] to this day. 9 And David was afraid of the Lord that day, and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” 10 So David was not willing to take the ark of the Lord into the city of David. But David took it aside (E)to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 11 And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, (F)and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
12 And it was told King David, “The Lord has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” (G)So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom (H)to the city of David with rejoicing. 13 And when (I)those who bore the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, (J)he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal. 14 And David (K)danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was (L)wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn.
David and Michal
16 As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the Lord and set it (M)in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. (N)And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 18 And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, (O)he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts 19 and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat,[c] and a cake of raisins to each one. (P)Then all the people departed, each to his house.
20 And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, (Q)uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants' female servants, as one of the (R)vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!” 21 And David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, (S)who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince[d] over Israel, the people of the Lord—and I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your[e] eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.” 23 And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
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- 2 Samuel 6:5 Septuagint, 1 Chronicles 13:8; Hebrew fir trees
- 2 Samuel 6:8 Perez-uzzah means the breaking out against Uzzah
- 2 Samuel 6:19 Vulgate; the meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain
- 2 Samuel 6:21 Or leader
- 2 Samuel 6:22 Septuagint; Hebrew my
1 Samuel 10:5
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5 After that you shall come to (A)Gibeath-elohim,[a] (B)where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down (C)from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.
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- 1 Samuel 10:5 Gibeath-elohim means the hill of God
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