1 Chronicles 15:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their kindred as singers to raise loud sounds of joy on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ David told the chief Levites to appoint their brethren the singers with instruments of music–harps, lyres, and cymbals–to play loudly and lift up their voices with joy.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as singers to raise their voices joyfully, accompanied by musical instruments, including harps, lyres, and cymbals.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And David spoke to the leaders of the Levites, so that they might appoint, from their brothers, singers with musical instruments, specifically, psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, so that a joyful noise might resound on high.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of their brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound on high.

1 Chronicles 15:16 Cross References

1 Chronicles 13:8

David and all Israel were dancing before God with all their might, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.

1 Chronicles 15:12

He said to them, “You are the heads of families of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, you and your kindred, so that you may bring up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place that I have prepared for it.

1 Chronicles 16:42

Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.

1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph was the chief, and second to him was Zechariah, Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with harps and lyres; Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

1 Chronicles 6:16

The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 20:19

And the Levites of the Kohathites and the Korahites stood up to praise the Lord, the God of Israel, with a very loud voice.

2 Chronicles 30:12

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 5:12

all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, their sons and kindred, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, stood east of the altar with one hundred twenty priests who were trumpeters.

2 Chronicles 5:13

It was the duty of the trumpeters and singers together to make themselves heard in unison in praise and thanksgiving to the Lord, and when the song was raised, with trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments, in praise to the Lord, “For he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever,” the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

2 Chronicles 7:6

The priests stood at their posts, the Levites also, with the instruments for music to the Lord that King David had made for giving thanks to the Lord—for his steadfast love endures forever—whenever David offered praises through their playing. Opposite them the priests sounded trumpets, and all Israel stood.

Nehemiah 12:27

Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with rejoicing, with thanksgivings and with singing, with cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Nehemiah 12:36

and his kindred, Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God, and Ezra the scribe went in front of them.

Nehemiah 12:43

They offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. The joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.

Nehemiah 12:46

For in the days of David and Asaph long ago there was a leader of the singers, and there were songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Psalm 100:1

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

Psalm 150:5

Praise him with clanging cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

Psalm 81:1

Sing aloud to God our strength; shout for joy to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.

Psalm 87:7

Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”

Psalm 95:1

O come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!

Exodus 15:20

Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings shall be your foster fathers and their queens your nursing mothers. With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord; those who wait for me shall not be put to shame.

Jeremiah 33:11

the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing as they bring thank offerings to the house of the Lord: “Give thanks to the Lord of hosts, for the Lord is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.

Amos 6:5

who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David improvise on instruments of music,

Acts 14:23

And after they had appointed elders for them in each church, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the Lord in whom they had come to believe.

2 Timothy 2:2

and what you have heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will be able to teach others as well.

Titus 1:5

I left you behind in Crete for this reason, so that you should put in order what remained to be done and should appoint elders in every town, as I directed you: