1 Chronicles 15:16

New Century Version

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to play their lyres, harps, and cymbals and to sing happy songs.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 13:8

David and all the Israelites were celebrating in the presence of God. With all their strength they were singing and playing lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

1 Chronicles 15:12

David said to them, “You are the leaders of the families of Levi. You and the other Levites must give yourselves for service to the Lord. Bring up the Ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place I have made for it.

1 Chronicles 16:42

Heman and Jeduthun also had the job of playing the trumpets and cymbals and other musical instruments when songs were sung to God. Jeduthun’s sons guarded the gates.

1 Chronicles 16:5

Asaph, who played the cymbals, was the leader. Zechariah was second to him. The other Levites were Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel. They played the lyres and harps.

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand Levites will be gatekeepers, and four thousand Levites will praise the Lord with musical instruments I made for giving praise.”

1 Chronicles 6:16

Levi’s sons were Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

2 Chronicles 20:19

Then some Levites from the Kohathite and Korahite people stood up and praised the Lord, the God of Israel, with very loud voices.

2 Chronicles 30:12

And God united all the people of Judah in obeying King Hezekiah and his officers, because their command had come from the Lord.

2 Chronicles 5:12

All the Levite musicians—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and all their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar. They were dressed in white linen and played cymbals, harps, and lyres. With them were one hundred twenty priests who blew trumpets.

2 Chronicles 5:13

Those who blew the trumpets and those who sang together sounded like one person as they praised and thanked the Lord. They sang as others played their trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments. They praised the Lord with this song: “He is good; his love continues forever.” Then the Temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud.

2 Chronicles 7:6

The priests stood ready to do their work. The Levites also stood with the instruments of the Lord’s music that King David had made for praising the Lord. The priests and Levites were saying, “His love continues forever.” The priests, who stood across from the Levites, blew their trumpets, and all the Israelites were standing.

Nehemiah 12:27

When the wall of Jerusalem was offered as a gift to God, they asked the Levites to come from wherever they lived to Jerusalem to celebrate with joy the gift of the wall. They were to celebrate with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Nehemiah 12:36

Zechariah’s relatives also went. They were Shemaiah, Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, Judah, and Hanani. These men played the musical instruments of David, the man of God, and Ezra the teacher walked in front of them.

Nehemiah 12:43

The people offered many sacrifices that day and were happy because God had given them great joy. The women and children were happy. The sound of happiness in Jerusalem could be heard far away.

Nehemiah 12:46

Earlier, in the time of David and Asaph, there was a leader of the singers and of the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Psalm 100:1

Shout to the Lord, all the earth.

Psalm 149:3

They should praise him with dancing. They should sing praises to him with tambourines and harps.

Psalm 150:5

Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with crashing cymbals.

Psalm 81:1

Sing for joy to God, our strength; shout out loud to the God of Jacob.

Psalm 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, when the moon is full, when our feast begins.

Psalm 87:7

They will dance and sing, “All good things come from Jerusalem.”

Psalm 95:1

Come, let’s sing for joy to the Lord. Let’s shout praises to the Rock who saves us.

Exodus 15:20

Then Aaron’s sister Miriam, a prophetess, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.

Isaiah 49:23

Kings will teach your children, and daughters of kings will take care of them. They will bow down before you and kiss the dirt at your feet. Then you will know I am the Lord. Anyone who trusts in me will not be disappointed.”

Jeremiah 33:11

There will be sounds of joy and gladness and the happy sounds of brides and bridegrooms. There will be the sounds of people bringing to the Temple of the Lord their offerings of thanks to the Lord. They will say, ‘Praise the Lord All-Powerful, because the Lord is good! His love continues forever!’ They will say this because I will again do good things for Judah, as I did in the beginning,” says the Lord.

Amos 6:5

You make up songs on your harps, and, like David, you compose songs on musical instruments.

Acts 14:23

They chose elders for each church, by praying and fasting for a certain time. These elders had trusted the Lord, so Paul and Barnabas put them in the Lord’s care.

2 Timothy 2:2

You should teach people whom you can trust the things you and many others have heard me say. Then they will be able to teach others.

Titus 1:5

I left you in Crete so you could finish doing the things that still needed to be done and so you could appoint elders in every town, as I directed you.