2 Samuel 6:5

And Dauid and al the house of Israel played before the Lord on all instruments made of firre, and on harpes, and on Psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

In Context

4And when they brought the Arke of God out of the house of Abinadab, that was at Gibeah, Ahio went before the Arke,

6And when they came to Nachons threshing floore, Vzzah put his hande to the Arke of God, and helde it: for the oxen did shake it.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 16:16Let our Lord therefore command thy seruants, that are before thee, to seeke a man that is a cunning plaier vpon the harpe: that when the euil spirit of God commeth vpon thee, hee may play with his hand, and thou maiest be eased.

2 Kings 3:15But nowe bring me a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came vpon him.

1 Chronicles 15:10Of the sonnes of Vzziel, Amminadab the chiefe, and his brethren an hundreth and twelue.

Psalms 47:5God is gone vp with triumph, euen the Lord, with the sound of the trumpet.

Psalms 150:3Prayse ye him in the sounde of the trumpet: prayse yee him vpon the viole and the harpe.

Daniel 3:7Therefore assoone as all the people heard the sound of the cornet, trumpet, harpe, sackebut, psalterie, and all instruments of musike, all the people, nations, and languages fell downe, and worshipped the golden image, that Nebuchad-nezzar the King had set vp.

Matthew Henry on 2 Samuel 6:2-6

The Removal of the Ark. ( b. c. 1045.) 1 Again, David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims. 3 And they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave the new cart. 4 And… Read the whole commentary →

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