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Bishop's Bible

1 Chronicles 13:8

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.

Bible Study Resources

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.
Bible in Basic English
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.
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 And Dauid counsailed with the captaynes of thousandes and hundredes, and with al the Lordes, 2 And sayde vnto all the congregation of Israel: If it seeme you good, & to be of the Lord our God, we will send abrode vnto our brethren that are left in all the lande of Israel, and with them also to the priestes and Leuites which are in their suburbes, to gather them together vnto vs: 3 And we will bring againe the arke of our God to vs: for we regarded it not in the dayes of Saul. 4 And all the congregation was content that he should do so: for the thing seemed good in the eyes of all the people. 5 So Dauid gathered all Israel together from Sihor in Egypt, vnto the entering of Hemath, to bring the arke of the Lorde from Kiriathiarim. 6 And Dauid went vp and all Israel to an high place towarde Kiriathiarim, that was in Iuda, to set thence the arke of the Lorde God that dwelleth betweene the Cherubs, where his name is called on. 7 And they carryed the arke of God in a newe carte out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and his brother guided the carte. 8 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.

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
And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
Genesis 13:3
And he went foorth on his iourney, from the south towarde Bethel, vnto the place where his tent had ben at the begynnyng, betwene Bethel and Hai:
Genesis 13:6
And the lande was not able to beare them, that they might dwell together: for theyr substaunce was great, so that they coulde not dwell together.
Genesis 13:7
And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.
Genesis 13:9
Is not the whole lande before thee? Seperate thy selfe I pray thee from me: yf thou wilt take the left hande, I wyll go to the ryght: or yf thou depart to the ryght hande, I wyll go to the left.
Genesis 13:11
Then Lot chose all the playne of Iordane, and toke his iourney from the east, and so departed the one [brother] from the other.
Genesis 13:14
And the Lorde saide vnto Abram, after that Lot was departed fro hym: Lyft vp thyne eyes nowe, and loke fro the place where thou art, northwarde, southward, eastwarde, and westward:
Genesis 13:17
Arise, and walke about in the lande, after the length of it, & after the breadth of it: for I wyll geue it vnto thee.
Genesis 13:18
Then Abram taking downe his tent, came and dwelled in the playne of Mamre, which is in Hebron, & buylded there an aulter vnto the Lorde.
Genesis 45:24
So sent he his brethren away, and they departed: and he sayd vnto them, see that ye fall to no stryfe on the way.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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