David and all Israel were celebrating(A) with all their might before the Lord, with castanets,[a] harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,(A)
    praise him with the harp and lyre,(B)
praise him with timbrel and dancing,(C)
    praise him with the strings(D) and pipe,(E)
praise him with the clash of cymbals,(F)
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

Read full chapter

David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, timbrels, cymbals and trumpets.(A)

Read full chapter

23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.(A)

Read full chapter

You strum away on your harps(A) like David
    and improvise on musical instruments.(B)

Read full chapter

15 Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall down and worship the image I made, very good. But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately into a blazing furnace. Then what god(A) will be able to rescue(B) you from my hand?”

Read full chapter

10 Your Majesty has issued a decree(A) that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of gold,(B)

Read full chapter

Therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp and all kinds of music, all the nations and peoples of every language fell down and worshiped the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.(A)

Read full chapter

As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp,(A) pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image(B) of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.(C)

Read full chapter

25 In front are the singers,(A) after them the musicians;(B)
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.(C)
26 Praise God in the great congregation;(D)
    praise the Lord in the assembly of Israel.(E)
27 There is the little tribe(F) of Benjamin,(G) leading them,
    there the great throng of Judah’s princes,
    and there the princes of Zebulun and of Naphtali.(H)

Read full chapter

God has ascended(A) amid shouts of joy,(B)
    the Lord amid the sounding of trumpets.(C)

Read full chapter

10 from the descendants of Uzziel,

Amminadab the leader and 112 relatives.

11 Then David summoned Zadok(A) and Abiathar(B) the priests, and Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel and Amminadab the Levites. 12 He said to them, “You are the heads of the Levitical families; you and your fellow Levites are to consecrate(C) yourselves and bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have prepared for it. 13 It was because you, the Levites,(D) did not bring it up the first time that the Lord our God broke out in anger against us.(E) We did not inquire of him about how to do it in the prescribed way.(F) 14 So the priests and Levites consecrated themselves in order to bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel. 15 And the Levites carried the ark of God with the poles on their shoulders, as Moses had commanded(G) in accordance with the word of the Lord.(H)

16 David(I) told the leaders of the Levites(J) to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians(K) to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.(L)

17 So the Levites appointed Heman(M) son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph(N) son of Berekiah; and from their relatives the Merarites,(O) Ethan son of Kushaiah; 18 and with them their relatives next in rank: Zechariah,[a] Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom(P) and Jeiel,[b] the gatekeepers.

19 The musicians Heman,(Q) Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals; 20 Zechariah, Jaaziel,[c] Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to alamoth,[d] 21 and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to sheminith.[e] 22 Kenaniah the head Levite was in charge of the singing; that was his responsibility because he was skillful at it.

23 Berekiah and Elkanah were to be doorkeepers for the ark. 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah and Eliezer the priests were to blow trumpets(R) before the ark of God. Obed-Edom and Jehiah were also to be doorkeepers for the ark.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 15:18 Three Hebrew manuscripts and most Septuagint manuscripts (see also verse 20 and 16:5); most Hebrew manuscripts Zechariah son and or Zechariah, Ben and
  2. 1 Chronicles 15:18 Hebrew; Septuagint (see also verse 21) Jeiel and Azaziah
  3. 1 Chronicles 15:20 See verse 18; Hebrew Aziel, a variant of Jaaziel.
  4. 1 Chronicles 15:20 Probably a musical term
  5. 1 Chronicles 15:21 Probably a musical term

15 But now bring me a harpist.”(A)

While the harpist was playing, the hand(B) of the Lord came on Elisha

Read full chapter

When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing,(A) with joyful songs and with timbrels(B) and lyres. As they danced, they sang:(C)

“Saul has slain his thousands,
    and David his tens(D) of thousands.”

Read full chapter

16 Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre.(A) He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better.”

Read full chapter

“After that you will go to Gibeah(A) of God, where there is a Philistine outpost.(B) As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets(C) coming down from the high place(D) with lyres, timbrels,(E) pipes(F) and harps(G) being played before them, and they will be prophesying.(H)

Read full chapter

Bible Gateway Recommends