28 occurrences in 12 translations

'Harps' in the Bible

ran away from me secretly, and stole from me by not keeping me informed. Otherwise, I could have sent you off with a party and singing, accompanied by a band playing tambourines and harps.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicTambourinesLyresAvoiding SecrecyOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

“After that you will come to the Hill of God where there are Philistine garrisons. When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.

Verse ConceptsFlutesHigh PlacesLyreMusical Instruments, types ofProphecy, Methods Of OtShrinesTambourinesHarpsLyresSchooldrums

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofMusiciansMusical Instruments, types ofSongsFir TreesTreesWorship, Elements OfMusical Instruments, Made OfOrchestrasCymbalsTambourinesHarpsLyresinstrumentsdrums

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 were seen unto this day.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreSingingMusical Instruments, Made OfLyres

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

Verse ConceptsMusical Instruments, types ofSongsTrumpetCymbalsMusic To CelebrateTambourinesHarpsLyresdrums

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusiciansMusical Instruments, types ofSingersOccupationsSingingSongsCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

Verse ConceptsHarpsHornsMusical Instruments, types ofRamsShoutingShouting For JoyCymbalsLyres

Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsLyres

Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:

Verse ConceptsCommanderHarpsLyreMinistry, Nature OfMusicMusical Instruments, types ofServanthood, And Worship Of GodCymbalsInstrumentalistsLyres

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

Verse ConceptsSingersCymbalsHarpsLyresDirection

Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

Verse ConceptsHarpsLinenLyreOrchestrasA Hundred And Some

And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreSinging

And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsTrumpet

And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.

Verse ConceptsHarpsLyreMusical Instruments, types ofSeers

And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

Verse ConceptsBaby dedicationHarpsJoy, Of IsraelLyreMusicMusical Instruments, types ofOrchestrasCymbalsBuilding Jerusalem's Wall

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,along with the music of your harps.Maggots are spread out under you,and worms cover you.”

Verse ConceptsHarpsCovering The BodyMusical Instruments, types ofHumbling The ProudPeople Eaten By WormMaggotsNo Musicworms

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the LORD shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusicMusical Instruments, types ofMusic To Celebratedrums

Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance--when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the harp be known?

Verse ConceptsFlutesHarpsIgnorant Of FactsBeing Differentinstruments

And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Verse ConceptsSweet Odoursequipping, physicalMusical Instruments, types ofPriesthood, In NtPriests, Tasks In Nt TimesHeaven, Glimpsed By HumansFour CreaturesHarpsTwenty SomeBowing Before MessiahElders In HeavenTwenty Four Elders

And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

Verse ConceptsThunderThings Like WaterInstrumentalistsHarpsGod Speaks From HeavenLike WaterwaterfallsThunder Showing God's Presence

And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

Verse ConceptsGlassequipping, physicaldefeatSeaPromised VictoryBeastsSea Of GlassGod Appearing In FireHarpsTransparencyOvercoming Through Christ

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