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Version</a></span><br />And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/13.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before God with all <i>their</i> might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_chronicles/13.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Then David and all Israel played <i>music</i> before God with all <i>their</i> might, with singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_chronicles/13.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all <i>their</i> might, with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/13.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_chronicles/13.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all <i>their</i> might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all <i>their</i> strength, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_chronicles/13.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel celebrated [joyfully] before God with all their might, with songs, lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel were dancing with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_chronicles/13.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_chronicles/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />while David and the crowd danced and sang praises to the LORD with all their might. They played music on small harps and other stringed instruments, and on tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_chronicles/13.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before God with all their might: even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_chronicles/13.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />David and all Israel were celebrating in God's presence with all their might, with songs, with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_chronicles/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />while David and all the people danced with all their might to honor God. They sang and played musical instruments--harps, drums, cymbals, and trumpets. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_chronicles/13.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />David and all of Israel were dancing in the presence of God with all of their might with songs, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_chronicles/13.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_chronicles/13.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_chronicles/13.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_chronicles/13.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, with harps, with stringed instruments, with tambourines, with cymbals, and with trumpets. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_chronicles/13.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_chronicles/13.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_chronicles/13.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And David and all Israel playing before God with all strength, and with songs and with harps, and with lyres, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before God with all their might with hymns, and with harps, and with psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals, and trumpets, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_chronicles/13.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Now David and all of Israel were playing before God, with all of their ability, in songs, and with harps, and psalteries, and timbrels, and cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_chronicles/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />while David and all Israel danced before God with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_chronicles/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />David and all Israel were dancing before God with all their might, with song and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_chronicles/13.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before the LORD with all their might, and with singing and with harps and with psalteries and with cymbals and with timbrels.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/1_chronicles/13.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And David and all Israel were able before LORD JEHOVAH in strength and with songs and with harps and with tambourines and with cymbals.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/1_chronicles/13.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And David and all Israel played before God with all their might; even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/1_chronicles/13.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And David and all Israel <i>were</i> playing before the Lord with all their might, and <i>that</i> together with singers, and with harps, and with lutes, with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wtNNY-qpWWI?start=4108" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_chronicles/13.htm">Uzzah Touches the Ark</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">8</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1732.htm" title="1732: wə·ḏā·wîḏ (Conj-w:: N-proper-ms) -- Perhaps beloved one, a son of Jesse. Rarely; Daviyd; from the same as dowd; loving; David, the youngest son of Jesse.">David</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: wə·ḵāl (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">and all</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">the Israelites</a> <a href="/hebrew/7832.htm" title="7832: mə·śa·ḥă·qîm (V-Piel-Prtcpl-mp) -- To laugh. A primitive root; to laugh; by implication, to play.">were celebrating</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: lip̄·nê (Prep-l:: N-cpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm (Art:: N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">God</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: bə·ḵāl (Prep-b:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">with all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5797.htm" title="5797: ‘ōz (N-ms) -- Strength, might. Or rowz; from azaz; strength in various applications.">their might,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7892.htm" title="7892: ū·ḇə·šî·rîm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mp) -- A song, singing. Or feminine shiyrah; from shiyr; a song; abstractly, singing.">with songs</a> <a href="/hebrew/3658.htm" title="3658: ū·ḇə·ḵin·nō·rō·wṯ (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mp) -- A lyre. From a unused root meaning to twang; a harp.">and on harps</a> <a href="/hebrew/5035.htm" title="5035: ū·ḇin·ḇā·lîm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mp) -- A skin-bag for, liquids, a vase, a lyre. Or nebel; from nabel; a skin-bag for liquids; hence, a vase; also a lyre.">and lyres,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8596.htm" title="8596: ū·ḇə·ṯup·pîm (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-mp) -- A timbrel, tambourine. From taphaph contracted; a tambourine.">with tambourines,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4700.htm" title="4700: ū·ḇim·ṣil·ta·yim (Conj-w, Prep-b:: N-cd) -- Cymbals. From tsalal; double tinklers, i.e. Cymbals.">cymbals,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2689.htm" title="2689: ū·ḇa·ḥă·ṣō·ṣə·rō·wṯ (Conj-w, Prep-b, Art:: N-fp) -- (an ancient) trumpet. By reduplication from chatsar; a trumpet.">and trumpets.</a> </span><span class="reftext">9</span>When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark, because the oxen had stumbled.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">2 Samuel 6:5</a></span><br />David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/150-3.htm">Psalm 150:3-5</a></span><br />Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre. / Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute. / Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/47-1.htm">Psalm 47:1</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout unto God with a voice of triumph.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/81-1.htm">Psalm 81:1-2</a></span><br />For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. / Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/98-4.htm">Psalm 98:4-6</a></span><br />Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises! / Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp. / With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy before the LORD, the King.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/149-3.htm">Psalm 149:3</a></span><br />Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/15-20.htm">Exodus 15:20-21</a></span><br />Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing. / And Miriam sang back to them: “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/5-12.htm">2 Chronicles 5:12-13</a></span><br />all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. / The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/29-25.htm">2 Chronicles 29:25-30</a></span><br />Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets. / The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets. / And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/30-21.htm">2 Chronicles 30:21</a></span><br />The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/12-27.htm">Nehemiah 12:27</a></span><br />At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/30-29.htm">Isaiah 30:29</a></span><br />You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart will rejoice like one who walks to the music of a flute, going up to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/38-20.htm">Isaiah 38:20</a></span><br />The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-19.htm">Ephesians 5:19</a></span><br />Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-16.htm">Colossians 3:16</a></span><br />Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.</p><p class="hdg">David</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/15-10.htm">1 Chronicles 15:10-24</a></b></br> Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/10-5.htm">1 Samuel 10:5</a></b></br> After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where <i>is</i> the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">2 Samuel 6:5</a></b></br> And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of <i>instruments made of</i> fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.</p><p class="hdg">singing [heb]songs </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/16-23.htm">1 Samuel 16:23</a></b></br> And it came to pass, when the <i>evil</i> spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/15-28.htm">1 Chronicles 15:28</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_chronicles/16-5.htm">1 Chronicles 16:5,42</a></b></br> 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; … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_kings/25-17.htm">Brass</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">Celebrating</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">Cymbals</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/13-6.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-12.htm">Harps</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-11.htm">Horns</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/12-37.htm">Instruments</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/13-6.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/13-5.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-12.htm">Lyres</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/10-13.htm">Making</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-33.htm">Melody</a> <a href="/1_kings/21-7.htm">Merry</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/9-33.htm">Music</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/5-25.htm">Played</a> <a href="/2_kings/3-15.htm">Playing</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-12.htm">Psalteries</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-32.htm">Singing</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/6-32.htm">Song</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/9-33.htm">Songs</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/1_kings/10-12.htm">Stringed</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">Tambourines</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">Tambours</a> <a href="/2_samuel/6-5.htm">Timbrels</a> <a href="/2_kings/12-13.htm">Trumpets</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Brass</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-29.htm">Celebrating</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Cymbals</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/13-11.htm">David</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Harps</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-24.htm">Horns</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Instruments</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/14-2.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/17-6.htm">Israelites</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-20.htm">Lyres</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Making</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-19.htm">Melody</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-29.htm">Merry</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Music</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-5.htm">Played</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-29.htm">Playing</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Psalteries</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-21.htm">Singing</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Song</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-9.htm">Songs</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/16-11.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-16.htm">Stringed</a> <a href="/psalms/68-25.htm">Tambourines</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-8.htm">Tambours</a> <a href="/psalms/68-25.htm">Timbrels</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/15-24.htm">Trumpets</a><div class="vheading2">1 Chronicles 13</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-1.htm">David fetches the ark with great solemnity from Kirjath Jearim</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-9.htm">Uzza being smitten, the ark is left at the house of Obed-Edom</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The context is the return of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, a significant event symbolizing God's presence among His people. The phrase "with all their might" indicates the intensity and sincerity of their worship, reflecting a wholehearted devotion to God. This mirrors other biblical instances of fervent worship, such as in <a href="/2_samuel/6-14.htm">2 Samuel 6:14</a>, where David dances before the Lord with all his might. The communal aspect underscores the unity of Israel under David's leadership, a theme prevalent throughout the Chronicles.<p><b>with songs and on harps and lyres</b><br>The use of music in worship is a recurring theme in the Bible, and here it emphasizes the joy and celebration of the occasion. Harps and lyres were common instruments in ancient Israel, often associated with worship and prophecy (<a href="/1_samuel/10-5.htm">1 Samuel 10:5</a>). The inclusion of songs suggests a tradition of vocal praise, which is seen throughout the Psalms, many of which are attributed to David. This musical worship can be seen as a precursor to the organized temple worship established later by David and Solomon.<p><b>with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets</b><br>These instruments add to the festive and celebratory nature of the event. Tambourines and cymbals were often used in joyful processions and celebrations (<a href="/exodus/15-20.htm">Exodus 15:20</a>, <a href="/psalms/150-5.htm">Psalm 150:5</a>). The trumpet, or shofar, held significant ceremonial importance in Israel, used to announce festivals, call assemblies, and signal important events (<a href="/leviticus/23-24.htm">Leviticus 23:24</a>, <a href="/numbers/10-10.htm">Numbers 10:10</a>). The use of these instruments signifies the importance of the occasion and the desire to honor God with a full array of musical expression. This celebration foreshadows the heavenly worship described in Revelation, where music and praise are central to the worship of God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/d/david.htm">David</a></b><br>The King of Israel, a man after God's own heart, who led the Israelites in bringing the Ark of the Covenant back to Jerusalem.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The people of Israel, who were united under David's leadership and participated in the celebration.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/ark_of_the_covenant.htm">Ark of the Covenant</a></b><br>A sacred chest that held the tablets of the Ten Commandments, representing God's presence and covenant with Israel.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a></b><br>The city chosen by David to be the political and spiritual center of Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/celebration.htm">Celebration</a></b><br>A joyful event marked by music and worship as the Ark was transported, signifying the importance of God's presence among His people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/j/joyful_worship.htm">Joyful Worship</a></b><br>Worship should be a joyful expression of our love and reverence for God, as demonstrated by David and the Israelites.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/unity_in_worship.htm">Unity in Worship</a></b><br>The collective celebration by all the Israelites underscores the importance of unity in worshiping God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/reverence_for_god's_presence.htm">Reverence for God's Presence</a></b><br>The Ark symbolized God's presence, reminding us to approach worship with reverence and awe.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/u/use_of_music_in_worship.htm">Use of Music in Worship</a></b><br>The variety of instruments used highlights the role of music in expressing worship and adoration to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/o/obedience_in_worship.htm">Obedience in Worship</a></b><br>While enthusiasm in worship is important, it must be coupled with obedience to God's instructions, as later chapters reveal the consequences of neglecting this.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_1_chronicles_13.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 1 Chronicles 13</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/which_instruments_are_in_the_old_testament.htm">What musical instruments are mentioned in the Old Testament?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_david_moving_ark.htm">(1 Chronicles 13:6) Are there any archaeological or historical records backing David's attempt to transport the Ark from Kiriath Jearim?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_is_abijah_more_faithful_in_chronicles.htm">2 Chronicles 13 compared with 1 Kings 15:3 - Why does Abijah appear more faithful in Chronicles than in Kings, and what might explain this seeming discrepancy?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_forced_labor_fit_solomon's_wisdom.htm">How does the forced labor mentioned in 2 Chronicles 8:7-8 reconcile with biblical portrayals of Solomon's wisdom and godly leadership?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_chronicles/13.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(8) <span class= "bld">Played.</span><span class= "ital">--Were</span> dancing (to music)<span class= "ital">.</span><p><span class= "bld">With all their might, and with singing.</span>--So LXX. and Syriac. Samuel has "with all woods of cypresses;" a strange expression, probably due to confusion of similar letters, and transposition. The LXX. there has "in strength."<p><span class= "bld">Cymbals and trumpets.</span>--Samuel (Hebrew) has <span class= "ital">sistrums</span> (a kind of rattle) <span class= "ital">and cymbals</span>. The former word only occurs there. The Chronicle has a later term for <span class= "ital">cymbals</span> (<span class= "ital">meciltayim for cilce?lim</span>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_chronicles/13.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 8.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Played before God</span>. The Hebrew word is the Piel of <span class="hebrew">שׂחק</span>, the root of which, from the simplest meaning of "to laugh" (and with the two appropriate prepositions used for laughing with an expression of derision or contempt), through the two further meanings of "sporting" and "<span class="accented">jesting</span>," passes to the signification of dancing" (<a href="/1_samuel/18-7.htm">1 Samuel 18:7</a>; <a href="/jeremiah/31-4.htm">Jeremiah 31:4</a>). Its deepest idea seems to be "to make merry," and to savour of the very same ambiguity attaching to that idiom with ourselves. The parallel of this passage exhibits "before the Lord." <span class="cmt_word">With all their might</span>. See the evident mistake of the parallel ("on all manner of instruments made of firwood," literally, <span class="accented">with all firwoods</span>) <span class="accented">through</span> similarity of the Hebrew characters. <span class="cmt_word">Cymbals and... trumpets</span>. Of the five names of musical instruments, the same in number in both passages, the first three are the same in the Hebrew, but these last two are different words, <span class="hebrew">וּבִמְצִלְתַּיִם וּבַחֲלֺצצְרות</span> here for <span class="hebrew">וּבִמנַענִעים וּבְצלְצליִם</span> A variation of this particular kind again indicates with some decisiveness the different character and the number of the sources from which the writers of the Books of Samuel and those of Chronicles took. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">David</span><br /><span class="heb">וְדָוִ֣יד</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḏā·wîḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1732.htm">Strong's 1732: </a> </span><span class="str2">David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and all</span><br /><span class="heb">וְכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Israelites</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">were celebrating</span><br /><span class="heb">מְשַׂחֲקִ֛ים</span> <span class="translit">(mə·śa·ḥă·qîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7832.htm">Strong's 7832: </a> </span><span class="str2">To laugh, to play</span><br /><br /><span class="word">before</span><br /><span class="heb">לִפְנֵ֥י</span> <span class="translit">(lip̄·nê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">God</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֱלֹהִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with all</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּכָל־</span> <span class="translit">(bə·ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">their might,</span><br /><span class="heb">עֹ֑ז</span> <span class="translit">(‘ōz)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5797.htm">Strong's 5797: </a> </span><span class="str2">Strength, might</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with songs</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְשִׁירִ֤ים</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·šî·rîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7892.htm">Strong's 7892: </a> </span><span class="str2">A song, singing</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and on harps and lyres,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְכִנֹּרוֹת֙</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·ḵin·nō·rō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3658.htm">Strong's 3658: </a> </span><span class="str2">A harp</span><br /><br /><span class="word">with tambourines,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבְתֻפִּ֔ים</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇə·ṯup·pîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8596.htm">Strong's 8596: </a> </span><span class="str2">A timbrel, tambourine</span><br /><br /><span class="word">cymbals,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇim·ṣil·ta·yim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - cd<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4700.htm">Strong's 4700: </a> </span><span class="str2">Double tinklers, cymbals</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and trumpets.</span><br /><span class="heb">וּבַחֲצֹצְרֽוֹת׃</span> <span class="translit">(ū·ḇa·ḥă·ṣō·ṣə·rō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2689.htm">Strong's 2689: </a> </span><span class="str2">(an ancient) trumpet</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">1 Chronicles 13:8 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_chronicles/13-8.htm">OT History: 1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all Israel played before God (1 Chron. 1Ch iCh i Ch 1 chr 1chr)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-7.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Chronicles 13:7"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 13:7" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_chronicles/13-9.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Chronicles 13:9"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Chronicles 13:9" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>