1 Tawarikh 13:8

13:8 while David and all Israel were energetically ¹  celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, ²  tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

1 Tawarikh 13:1

Uzzah Meets Disaster

13:1 David consulted with his military officers, including those who led groups of a thousand and those who led groups of a hundred. ³ 

1 Tawarikh 23:5

23:5 4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship.” ⁴ 

1 Tawarikh 23:2

23:2 David ⁵  assembled all the leaders of Israel, along with the priests and the Levites.

1 Tawarikh 29:26

David’s Reign Comes to an End

29:26 David son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

Nehemia 12:27

The Wall of Jerusalem is Dedicated

12:27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, ⁶  they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived ⁷  to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Nehemia 12:36

12:36 and his colleagues – Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani – with musical instruments of ⁸  David the man of God. (Ezra the scribe led them.) ⁹ 

Ayub 21:12

21:12 They sing ¹⁰  to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp,

and make merry to the sound of the flute.

Mazmur 150:5

150:5 Praise him with loud cymbals!

Praise him with clanging cymbals!

Amos 6:5

6:5 They sing ¹¹  to the tune of ¹²  stringed instruments; ¹³ 

like David they invent ¹⁴  musical instruments.

[13:8]  ¹ tn Heb “with all strength.”

[13:8]  ² tn Heb “with songs and with zithers [meaning uncertain] and with harps.” Due to the collocation with “harps,” some type of stringed instrument is probably in view.

[13:1]  ³ tn Heb “and David consulted with the officers of thousands and hundreds, to every ruler.”

[23:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “made to [or “for”] praise.”

[23:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (David) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[12:27]  ⁶ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[12:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “from all their places.” The words “they lived” are implied.

[12:36]  ⁸ tn Or “prescribed by” (NIV, NLT); TEV “of the kind played by.” The precise relationship of these musical instruments to David is not clear.

[12:36]  ⁹ tn Heb “was before them.”

[21:12]  ¹⁰ tn The verb is simply “they take up [or lift up],” but the understood object is “their voices,” and so it means “they sing.”

[6:5]  ¹¹ tn The meaning of the Hebrew verb פָּרַט (parat), which occurs only here in the OT, is unclear. Some translate “strum,” “pluck,” or “improvise.”

[6:5]  ¹² tn Heb “upon the mouth of,” that is, “according to.”

[6:5]  ¹³ sn The stringed instruments mentioned here are probably harps (cf. NIV, NRSV) or lutes (cf. NEB).

[6:5]  ¹⁴ tn The meaning of the Hebrew phrase חָשְׁבוּ לָהֶם (khoshvu lahem) is uncertain. Various options include: (1) “they think their musical instruments are like David’s”; (2) “they consider themselves musicians like David”; (3) “they esteem musical instruments highly like David”; (4) “they improvise [new songs] for themselves [on] instruments like David”; (5) “they invent musical instruments like David.” However, the most commonly accepted interpretation is that given in the translation (see S. M. Paul, Amos [Hermeneia], 206-7).