Ezra 2:65

besides their male and female servants who numbered 7,337; and [among them] they had 200 male and female singers.

2 Samuel 19:35

I am this day eighty years old. Can I [be useful to advise you to] discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or drink? Can I still hear the voices of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Exodus 15:20-21

Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron [and Moses], took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her with timbrels and dancing.

2 Chronicles 35:25

Then Jeremiah sung a lament (funeral song) for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have spoken about Josiah in their laments to this day. They made the songs an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.

Nehemiah 7:67

besides their male and their female servants, of whom there were 7,337; and they had 245 male and female singers.

Psalm 68:25

The singers go in front, the players of instruments last;
Between them the maidens playing on tambourines.

Psalm 148:12-13

Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

Also, I collected for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male singers and female singers, and the delights and pleasures of men—many concubines.

Isaiah 14:1-2

For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again choose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. Foreigners (Gentiles) will join them [as proselytes] and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel).

Jeremiah 9:17-18

Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Consider and call for the mourning women to come;
Send for the wailing women to come.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus came to the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players [who were professional, hired mourners] and the [grieving] crowd making an uproar,

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