Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

Bible References

The players

Psalm 87:7
Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say,
“All my springs of joy are in you.”
Psalm 150:3
Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.
Revelation 14:2
And I heard a voice from heaven, like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps.
Revelation 15:2
And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had been victorious over the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, holding harps of God.

Among

Psalm 148:12
Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children.
Exodus 15:20
Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.
Judges 11:34
When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical instruments.
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you will take up your tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the merrymakers.