HARPS
HARPS
Harps or guitars,f1 are constantly in the Holy Scriptures instruments of joy.
Harps of God are either an Hebraism, to shew their excellency, as the addition of God often signifies the most excellent things in their kind, being in the Scriptures said to be of God, as a prince of God,f2 the mountains of God,f3 the cedars of God,f4 and the like. Or else harps given as from God; or harps of God may be harps used in the service of God, in opposition to harps common and profane; as the instruments of music, in the service of the temple, were called the musical instruments of God,f5 and instruments of music of the Lord.F6
F1 Gen 31:27; Psa 81:2; Isa 25:8; Job 30:31.
F2 Gen 18:6, in the Original.
F3 Psa 36:6, acc. to the Or.
F4 Psa 80:11, in the Original.
F5 1Ch 16:42.
F6 2Ch 7:6.