{"id":10780,"date":"2022-09-24T03:43:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-138-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T03:43:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T08:43:29","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-138-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-138-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 13:8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> 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. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 8<\/strong>. <em> played<\/em> ] The Heb. word means <em> to sport, to dance<\/em> (cp. <span class='bible'>1Ch 15:29<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p><em> with all<\/em> their <em> might, and with singing<\/em> ] A better reading than that of <span class='bible'>2Sa 6:5<\/span>, <em> with all manner of<\/em> instruments made of <em> fir wood<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em> and with singing<\/em> ] R.V. <strong> even with songs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em> psalteries<\/em> ] The instrument here meant (Heb. <em> nbhel<\/em>) &ldquo;is generally identified at the present day with an instrument called the <em> santir<\/em> still in use among the Arabs. This consists of a long box with a flat bottom covered with a somewhat convex sounding-board over which the strings are stretched.&rdquo; (Nowack, <em> Hebrische Arckologie<\/em>, I. 275.) The &ldquo;harp&rdquo; (Heb. <em> kinnr<\/em>) was a simpler instrument, a <em> lyre<\/em> rather than a true harp.<\/p>\n<p> For a full discussion of <em> nbhel<\/em> and <em> kinnr<\/em> see Driver, <em> Amos<\/em>, p. 234.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span class='bible'>[See comments on 1Ch 13:5]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(8) <strong>Played.<\/strong><em>Were<\/em> dancing<em> <\/em>(to music)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>With all their might, and with singing.<\/strong>So LXX. and Syriac. Samuel has with all woods of cypresses; a strange expression, probably due to confusion of similar letters, and transposition. The LXX. there has in strength.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cymbals and trumpets.<\/strong>Samuel (Hebrew) has <em>sistrums<\/em> (a kind of rattle) <em>and cymbals<\/em>. The former word only occurs there. The Chronicle has a later term for <em>cymbals<\/em> (<em>m<\/em><em>e<\/em><em>iltayim for il<\/em><em>e<\/em><em>lm<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 1Ch 13:8 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.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 8. <strong> David and all Israel played.<\/strong> ] How should we rejoice in the gospel now restored! <em> O nos ingratos!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<p> And with singing.<\/strong> ] <em> Psallunt et saliunt.<\/em> All this is no warrant for those Popish pompous processions and superstitous will-worships.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>with all their might. Compare 2Sa 6:5. No need to arbitrarily make this correspond. They are two independent books, complementary in their information. <\/p>\n<p>and. Note the Figure of speech Polysyndeton (App-6) in this verse, emphasizing each item. <\/p>\n<p>timbrels. See note on Exo 15:20. <\/p>\n<p>cymbals. Hebrew. meziltayim: two metal discs, making a clashing sound. Always so rendered. Not to be confounded (as in Authorized Version and Revised Version) with zilzelim = timbrels, which make a rustling sound, but rendered &#8220;cymbals&#8221; in 2Sa 6:5. Psa 150:5. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>David: 1Ch 15:10-24, 1Sa 10:5, 2Sa 6:5-23, 2Ki 3:15, Psa 47:5, Psa 68:25-27, Psa 150:3-5 <\/p>\n<p>singing: Heb. songs <\/p>\n<p>with harps: The word kinnor, in Chaldee, kinnora, in Syraic, kainoro, in Arabic, kinnarat, and in Greek , certainly denotes a harp, played on with the hand, according to 1Sa 16:23. The number of strings in the harp was at first three; but afterwards they were increased to four, and at last to seven. 1Ch 15:28, 1Ch 16:5, 1Ch 16:42, 1Ch 23:5, 1Ch 25:1-6, Dan 3:5-7, Amo 5:23, Amo 6:5 <\/p>\n<p>psalteries: Naivel, or naibel, in Greek , and in Latin, nablium, was an instrument of the harp kind; having twelve sounds. <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 1Ch 15:16 &#8211; the singers 1Ch 15:19 &#8211; General 2Ch 7:6 &#8211; the priests 2Ch 20:28 &#8211; with psalteries Neh 12:27 &#8211; thanksgivings Psa 33:2 &#8211; with the psaltery Psa 33:3 &#8211; play Psa 68:24 &#8211; even Isa 30:29 &#8211; with a pipe<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>13:8 And David and all Israel played before {d} God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.<\/p>\n<p>(d) That is, before the Ark, where God showed himself: so that the sign is taken for the thing signified, which is common to all sacraments both in the old and new testaments.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 8. played ] The Heb. word means to sport, to dance (cp. 1Ch 15:29). with all their might, and with singing ] A better reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-1-chronicles-138-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 13:8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}