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Good News Translation

1 Chronicles 13:8

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.

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.
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.
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 King David consulted with all the officers in command of units of a thousand men and units of a hundred men. 2 Then he announced to all the people of Israel, "If you give your approval and if it is the will of the Lord our God, let us send messengers to the rest of our people and to the priests and Levites in their towns, and tell them to assemble here with us. 3 Then we will go and get God's Covenant Box, which was ignored while Saul was king." 4 The people were pleased with the suggestion and agreed to it. 5 So David assembled the people of Israel from all over the country, from the Egyptian border in the south to Hamath Pass in the north, in order to bring the Covenant Box from Kiriath Jearim to Jerusalem. 6 David and the people went to the city of Baalah, that is, to Kiriath Jearim, in the territory of Judah, to get the Covenant Box of God, which bears the name of the Lord enthroned above the winged creatures. 7 At Abinadab's house they brought out the Covenant Box and put it on a new cart. Uzzah and Ahio guided the cart, 8 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.

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
Abram was a very rich man, with sheep, goats, and cattle, as well as silver and gold.
Genesis 13:3
Then he left there and moved from place to place, going toward Bethel. He reached the place between Bethel and Ai where he had camped before
Genesis 13:6
And so there was not enough pasture land for the two of them to stay together, because they had too many animals.
Genesis 13:7
So quarrels broke out between the men who took care of Abram's animals and those who took care of Lot's animals. (At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were still living in the land.)
Genesis 13:9
So let's separate. Choose any part of the land you want. You go one way, and I'll go the other."
Genesis 13:11
So Lot chose the whole Jordan Valley for himself and moved away toward the east. That is how the two men parted.
Genesis 13:14
After Lot had left, the Lord said to Abram, "From where you are, look carefully in all directions.
Genesis 13:17
Now, go and look over the whole land, because I am going to give it all to you."
Genesis 13:18
So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord .
Genesis 45:24
He sent his brothers off and as they left, he said to them, "Don't quarrel on the way."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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