And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.
Parallel translations
- WEB and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.
- BSB And Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to Sheminith.
- NKJV Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, to direct with harps on the Sheminith;
- NASB and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, to lead with lyres tuned to the sheminith.
- NLT Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were chosen to play the lyres.
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Quick answer
Another group played harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre to lead the music. They directed the melody of the worship.
Overview
Mattithiah and others played lyres 'on the Sheminith' (the eight-stringed lyre, a lower octave), serving to lead or direct the song. The complementary high and low instruments produced a full, ordered sound of praise. This detailed account of David's worship arrangements underscores the care given to glorifying God, modeling worship that engages skill, order, and wholehearted joy before the Lord.
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- Ps 12:1Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
- Ps 150:3Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
- Ps 81:1–2Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
- Ps 6:1–10O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- 1 Chr 25:6–7All 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.
- Ps 92:3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
- 1 Sam 10:5After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is 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:
- Ps 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
- 1 Chr 15:18And with them their brethren of the second degree, Zechariah, Ben, and Jaaziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab, and Benaiah, and Maaseiah, and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters.
- 1 Chr 16:5Asaph 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;
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