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
Those who sing as well as those who dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.
Psalm 150:3
Praise him with trumpet sound. Praise him with psaltery and harp.
Revelation 14:2
And I heard a sound from heaven as a sound of many waters, and as a sound of great thunder. And the voice that I heard was as of harpers harping with their harps.
Revelation 15:2
And I saw like a glassy sea mingled with fire, and those who were victorious over the beast and over its image and over the number of its name, standing on the glassy sea, having harps of God.

Among

Psalm 148:12
both young men and virgins, old men and sons.
Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Judges 11:34
And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances. And she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
1 Samuel 18:6
And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build thee, and thou shall be built, O virgin of Israel. Again thou shall be adorned with thy tambourine, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.