2 Samuel 6:5
Good News Translation
David and all the Israelites were dancing and singing with all their might to honor the LORD. They were playing harps, lyres, drums, rattles, and cymbals.

New Revised Standard Version
David and all the house of Israel were dancing before the LORD with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

Contemporary English Version
Some of the people of Israel were playing music on small harps and other stringed instruments, and on tambourines, castanets, and cymbals. David and the others were happy, and they danced for the LORD with all their might.

New American Bible
while David and all the house of Israel danced before the LORD with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.

David

1 Samuel 10:5 After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.

1 Samuel 16:16 Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee, will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayst bear it more easily.

2 Kings 3:15 But now bring me hither a minstrel. And when the minstrel played, the hand of the Lord came upon him, and he said:

1 Chronicles 13:8 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,

1 Chronicles 15:10-24 Of the sons of Oziel, Aminadab the chief: and his brethren a hundred and twelve. . . .

Psalm 47:5 God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of trumpet.

Psalm 68:25-27 Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels. . . .

Psalm 150:3-5 Praise him with the sound of trumpet: praise him with psaltery and harp. . . .

Daniel 3:5,7,10,15 That in the hour that you shall hear the sound of the trumpet, and of the flute, and of the harp, of the sackbut, and of the psaltery, and of the symphony, and of all kind of music, ye fall down and adore the golden statue which king Nabuchodonosor hath set up. . . .

Amos 5:23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Amos 6:5 You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;

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1 Chronicles 13:8 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,

; where, instead of {bechol atzey beroshim}, which is literally, `with all trees or wood of fir, we read {bechol oz oovesheerim, `with all their might, and with songs.' This makes a good sense, while the former makes none; the LXX. have the same reading her, ().

Context
Uzzah Touches the Ark
5But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.6And when they came to the floor of Nachon, Oza put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it: because the oxen kicked and made it lean aside.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:6
Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.

1 Samuel 18:7
And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

1 Chronicles 13:8
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,

1 Chronicles 15:28
And all Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and sounding with the sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and cymbals, and psalteries, and harps.

Psalm 150:5
Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

2 Samuel 6:4
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