Amos 6:5

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Amos 6:5

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

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Amos 5:23

Amos 8:3

1 Chronicles 23:5

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For what didst thou hide to break away, and didst steal me, and didst not announce to me? and I will send thee away with gladness and with songs, with the drum and with the harp?

They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.

I gathered to me also silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and the provinces: I made to me men singing and women singing, and the delights of the sons of men, a wife and mistresses.

And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

And the voice of harp players, and musicians, and flute players, and trumpeters, should be heard in thee no more; and every artist of every art be found no more in thee; and the voice of the millstone should be heard no more in thee;

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Remove from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the music of thy lyres.

The songs of the temple wailed in that day, says the Lord Jehovah; many a corpse in every place being cast forth: silence.

And four thousand gate keepers, and four thousand praising to Jehovah with instruments which I made to praise.

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They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those drinking it

And to the house of drinking thou shalt not go in to sit with them to eat and to drink.

And I caused the noise of thy songs to cease and the voice of thy harps shall no more be heard.