And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, in David's returning from smiting the Philistine, that the women come out from all the cities of Israel to sing -- also the dancers -- to meet Saul the king, with tabrets, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments;

The singers are in front, the musicians follow, strumming their stringed instruments among the maidens who are playing their tambourines.

Old men ceased from the gate, the chosen ones from their stringed instruments.