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1 Chronicles 13:8

Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cymbal;   Joy;   Kirjath-Jearim;   Psaltery;   Timbrel;   Trumpet;   Thompson Chain Reference - Instruments, Chosen;   Music;   Musical Instruments;   Psalteries;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Music;   Trumpet;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chronicles;   Cymbal;   Kirjath-Jearim, or Kirjath-Baal;   Music;   Uzzah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cymbals;   Music, Instrumental;   Uzzah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Cymbals;   Dance;   Music;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Chronicles, Books of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Tabret;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Harp;   Uzza, Uzzah ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Music;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abinadab;   Ark of the Covenant;   David;   Fir;   Music;   Uzza;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Dancing;   Fir;   Uzza, Uzzah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Hebrew Names Version
David and all Yisra'el played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
King James Version
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
English Standard Version
And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
New Century Version
David and all the Israelites were celebrating in the presence of God. With all their strength they were singing and playing lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
New English Translation
while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Amplified Bible
David and all Israel celebrated [joyfully] before God with all their might, with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
New American Standard Bible
David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
World English Bible
David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Dauid and all Israel played before God with all their might, both with songes and with harpes, and with violes, and with timbrels & with cymbales and with trumpets.
Legacy Standard Bible
Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.
Berean Standard Bible
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Contemporary English Version
while David and the crowd danced and sang praises to the Lord with all their might. They played music on small harps and other stringed instruments, and on tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Complete Jewish Bible
David and all Isra'el celebrated in the presence of God with all their strength, with songs, lyres, lutes, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.
Darby Translation
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Easy-to-Read Version
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God. They were praising God and singing songs. They were playing harps, lyres, drums, cymbals, and trumpets.
George Lamsa Translation
And David and all Israel played before the LORD with all their might, and with singing and with harps and with psalteries and with cymbals and with timbrels.
Good News Translation
while David and all the people danced with all their might to honor God. They sang and played musical instruments—harps, drums, cymbals, and trumpets.
Lexham English Bible
Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, and with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Literal Translation
And David and all Israel were playing before God with all their might, and with songs, and with lyres, and with harps, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for Dauid and all Israel, they played with all their strength before God, with songes, with harpes, with psalteries, with tabrettes, with Cymbales and trompes.
American Standard Version
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Dauid and all Israel played before the arke of God with all their might, with singing, and harpes, psalteries, and tymbrels, and cymbales, and trumpettes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might; even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
King James Version (1611)
And Dauid and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harpes, and with psalteries, and with tymbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And David and all Israel were playing before the Lord with all their might, and that together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
English Revised Version
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might: even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe Dauid and al Israel pleieden bifor the Lord, with al miyt, in songis, and in harpis, and sautries, and tympans, and cymbalis, and trumpis.
Update Bible Version
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Webster's Bible Translation
And David and all Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
New King James Version
Then David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.
New Living Translation
David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
New Life Bible
David and all Israel were showing their joy before God with all their strength. They were singing and playing harps and timbrels, and blowing horns.
New Revised Standard
David and all Israel were dancing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, David and all Israel, were dancing for joy before God, with all boldness, and with songs and with lyres, and with harps and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might with hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals, and trumpets,
Revised Standard Version
And David and all Israel were making merry before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.
Young's Literal Translation
and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

Contextual Overview

1 Then David had discussions with the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and with every chief. 2 And David said to all the men of Israel who had come together there, If it seems good to you and if it is the purpose of the Lord our God, let us send to all the rest of our brothers, everywhere in the land of Israel, and to the priests and the Levites in their towns and the country round them, and get them to come together here to us; 3 And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions. 4 And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them. 5 So David sent for all Israel to come together, from Shihor, the river of Egypt, as far as the way into Hamath, to get the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. 6 And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones. 7 And they put the ark of God on a new cart, and took it out of the house of Abinadab; and Uzza and Ahio were the drivers of the cart. 8 Then David and all Israel made melody before God with all their strength, with songs and corded instruments of music, and with brass instruments and horns.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

David: 1 Chronicles 15:10-24, 1 Samuel 10:5, 2 Samuel 6:5-23, 2 Kings 3:15, Psalms 47:5, Psalms 68:25-27, Psalms 150:3-5

singing: Heb. songs

with harps: The word kinnor, in Chaldee, kinnora, in Syraic, kainoro, in Arabic, kinnarat, and in Greek ךיםץסןע, certainly denotes a harp, played on with the hand, according to 1 Samuel 16:23. The number of strings in the harp was at first three; but afterwards they were increased to four, and at last to seven. 1 Chronicles 15:28, 1 Chronicles 16:5, 1 Chronicles 16:42, 1 Chronicles 23:5, 1 Chronicles 25:1-6, Daniel 3:5-7, Amos 5:23, Amos 6:5

psalteries: Naivel, or naibel, in Greek םבגכב, and in Latin, nablium, was an instrument of the harp kind; having twelve sounds.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:16 - the singers 1 Chronicles 15:19 - General 2 Chronicles 7:6 - the priests 2 Chronicles 20:28 - with psalteries Nehemiah 12:27 - thanksgivings Psalms 33:2 - with the psaltery Psalms 33:3 - play Psalms 68:24 - even Isaiah 30:29 - with a pipe

Cross-References

Genesis 13:2
Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3
And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;
Genesis 13:6
So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.
Genesis 13:7
And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
Genesis 13:9
Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.
Genesis 13:11
So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.
Genesis 13:14
And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:
Genesis 13:17
Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.
Genesis 13:18
And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.
Genesis 45:24
And he sent his brothers on their way, and said to them, See that you have no argument on the road.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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