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
Singers and dancers alike will say,
“My whole source of joy is in you.”
Psalm 150:3
Praise Him with trumpet blast;
praise Him with harp and lyre.
Revelation 14:2
I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of cascading waters and like the rumbling of loud thunder. The sound I heard was also like harpists playing on their harps.
Revelation 15:2
I also saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had won the victory over the beast, his image, and the number of his name, were standing on the sea of glass with harps from God.

Among

Psalm 148:12
young men as well as young women,
old and young together.
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with their tambourines and danced.
Judges 11:34
When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.
1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you so that you will be rebuilt,
Virgin Israel.
You will take up your tambourines again
and go out in joyful dancing.

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