Bible Verses About Origins of Music

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

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

And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

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.

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

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:

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

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.

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

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

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.

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

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

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

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

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

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

Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

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

Let them praise the name of the Lord: for he commanded, and they were created.

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.

Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

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.

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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

Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

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.