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1 Chronicles 13 8
David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
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Psalms 150:3-5
Praise Him with trumpet blast; praise Him with harp and lyre.Praise Him with tambourine and dance; praise Him with flute and strings.Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with clashing cymbals.
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1 Samuel 18 6-1 Samuel 18 7
As the troops were coming back, when David was returning from killing the Philistine, the women came out from all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul, singing and dancing with tambourines, with shouts of joy, and with three-stringed instruments.As they celebrated, the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.
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Daniel 3:7
Therefore, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and every kind of music, people of every nation and language fell down and worshiped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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2 Kings 3 15
Now, bring me a musician.” While the musician played, the Lord’s hand came on Elisha.
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Daniel 3:10
You as king have issued a decree that everyone who hears the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music must fall down and worship the gold statue.
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Psalms 68:25-27
Singers lead the way, with musicians following; among them are young women playing tambourines.Praise God in the assemblies; praise the Lord from the fountain of Israel.There is Benjamin, the youngest, leading them, the rulers of Judah in their assembly, the rulers of Zebulun, the rulers of Naphtali.
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1 Samuel 16 16
Let our lord command your servants here in your presence to look for someone who knows how to play the lyre. Whenever the evil spirit from God troubles you, that person can play the lyre, and you will feel better.”
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Amos 6:5
They improvise songs to the sound of the harp and invent their own musical instruments like David.
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1 Chronicles 15 10-1 Chronicles 15 24
from the Uzzielites, Amminadab the leader and 112 of his relatives.David summoned the priests Zadok and Abiathar and the Levites Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab.He said to them,“ You are the heads of the Levite families. You and your relatives must consecrate yourselves so that you may bring the ark of the Lord God of Israel to the place I have prepared for it.For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”So the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.Then the Levites carried the ark of God the way Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord: on their shoulders with the poles.Then David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers and to have them raise their voices with joy accompanied by musical instruments— harps, lyres, and cymbals.So the Levites appointed Heman son of Joel; from his relatives, Asaph son of Berechiah; and from their relatives the Merarites, Ethan son of Kushaiah.With them were their relatives second in rank: Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, and the gatekeepers Obed-edom and Jeiel.The singers Heman, Asaph, and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play harps according to Alamoth;and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah were to lead the music with lyres according to the Sheminith.Chenaniah, the leader of the Levites in music, was to direct the music because he was skillful.Berechiah and Elkanah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.The priests, Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, were to blow trumpets before the ark of God. Obed-edom and Jehiah were also to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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1 Samuel 10 5
“ After that you will come to the Hill of God where there are Philistine garrisons. When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.
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Daniel 3:15
Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire— and who is the god who can rescue you from my power?”
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Daniel 3:5
When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, you are to fall down and worship the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.
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Amos 5:23
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Psalms 47:5
God ascends among shouts of joy, the Lord, among the sound of trumpets.