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1 Samuel 10:5
After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when you are come thither to the city, that you shall meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they shall prophesy:
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1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;
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1 Chronicles 25:1-7
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
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2 Chronicles 5:12,13
Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brothers, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
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2 Chronicles 29:25
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.
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Psalm 33:2
Praise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
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Psalm 43:4
Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yes, on the harp will I praise you, O God my God.
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Psalm 49:4
I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying on the harp.
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Psalm 57:8
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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Psalm 71:22
I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: to you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.
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Psalm 81:2
Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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Psalm 92:3
On an instrument of ten strings, and on the psaltery; on the harp with a solemn sound.
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Psalm 98:5
Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
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Psalm 108:2
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
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Psalm 147:7
Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise on the harp to our God:
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Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the tambourine and harp.
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Psalm 150:3
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
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Greek
5567. psallo -- to pull, twitch, twang, play, sing
... 5567 -- properly, pluck a musical instrument (like a harp); used of " with instruments ...
To play on a stringed instrument (celebrate the divine worship with music ...
//strongsnumbers.com/greek2/5567.htm - 7k
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Blessed is He Above all in his Birth!
... His Birth."Even my feeble tongue, has become a harp through His ... things were worshipped:
because the worshipper was foolish,"he used to worship all things ...
/.../ephraim/hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xv blessed is he.htm

The Worship of the Church. The Religion of the Primitive ...
... to the feelings of devotion; and viewing the lute and the harp as the carnal ...
[466:7] At this period forms of prayer were used in the heathen worship, [467:1 ...
//christianbookshelf.org/killen/the ancient church/chapter i the worship of.htm

Knowledge. Worship. Gratitude.
... not what they do." But what plea is to be used for those ... the God of the Old Testament,
is the God whom I worship. ... Is the harp never to give forth a joy-note? ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 30 1884/knowledge worship gratitude.htm

A Harp of Ten Strings
... happen to meet in some fine building, and worship God with ... I often meet with people
of God who used to be ... your heart unto the Lord, and from this harp of ten ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 37 1891/a harp of ten strings.htm

Hymns of Praise and Worship.
... the "spirit and understanding" with which it used to be ... and organize the choral branch
of divine worship, has no ... author of this hymn, took up the harp of Watts ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter i hymns of praise.htm

Acts of Sharbil, who was a Priest of Idols, and was Converted to ...
... sheep and oxen were being slaughtered, and the sound of the harp and the ... made a
laughing-stock and a jest by those who used formerly to worship them. ...
/.../unknown/the decretals/ancient syriac documents acts of.htm

Gregory Laments his Departure under a Threefold Comparison ...
... read [258] that enemies once assailed a great and sacred city, in which the worship
of God ... The Jews had the harp, and so the word psallein is used of them ...
/.../argument xvi gregory laments his departure.htm

The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth
... pretend, that when he played upon his harp, the wild ... And particularly heaven and
earth are used to denote the ... By which event, the worship of God, according to ...
//christianbookshelf.org/newton/messiah vol 1/sermon iii the shaking of.htm

Whether God Should be Praised with Song?
... Now we should employ nothing in the divine worship, save what is ... Give praise to the
Lord on the harp, sing to ... in like manner neither should song be used in the ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether god should be praised 2.htm

Book 5 Footnotes
... and which the divine hymns and psalms which were sung to the harp by David used
to expel ... the ark, to the Urim there inquired by, or to God's worship before it ...
/.../josephus/the antiquities of the jews/book 5 footnotes.htm

Resources
What is a psalm? | GotQuestions.org

What is the significance of the Sea of Galilee in the Bible? | GotQuestions.org

Should a Christian listen to secular music? | GotQuestions.org

Harp: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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