Reference: Singing
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In the O.T. we find there were courses of singers, and there were some who were 'taught to sing praise.' Instruments were also appointed for the singers. 1Ki 10:12. In Hab 3:19, at the end of the prophet's poetical 'prayer,' it says, "To the chief singer on my stringed instruments." "The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels." Ps 68:25.
Such organised choirs have no place in the N.T. They that worship God "must worship him in spirit and in truth." This also applies to the singing: "I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also." 1Co 14:15: cf. 1Co 14:26. "Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody or chanting in your heart to the Lord." Eph 5:19. "In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." Col 3:16. There will be singing in heaven. Re 5:9. Singing and PRAISE naturally go together. At the institution of the Lord's supper they 'sang a hymn,' margin 'psalm,' ?????. Mt 26:30. The same word is translated 'sang praises' unto God, when Paul and Silas were in prison, Ac 16:25; and the Lord sings praise in the midst of the assembly. Ps 22:22; Heb 2:12.
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And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor have they been seen to this day.
I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the mount of Olives.
And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and the prisoners heard them.
What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
How is it then, brethren? when ye are assembled, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a language, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.
Speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Saying, I will declare thy name to my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals of it: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and language, and people, and nation;