Amos 6:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and like David invent for themselves instruments of music;

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly, and cheat me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?

1 Chronicles 15:16

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brethren as the singers who should play loudly on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

1 Chronicles 23:5

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

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.

Isaiah 5:12

They have lyre and harp, timbrel and flute and wine at their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast out in silence.”

1 Peter 4:3

Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpers and minstrels, of flute players and trumpeters, shall be heard in thee no more; and a craftsman of any craft shall be found in thee no more; and the sound of the millstone shall be heard in thee no more;