Bible Verses About Musical Instruments

And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

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.

And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

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

All 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.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.