Bible Verses About Music

The people grumbled against Moshe and asked, "What are we to drink?"

Moshe cried to ADONAI; and ADONAI showed him a certain piece of wood, which, when he threw it into the water, made the water taste good. There ADONAI made laws and rules of life for them, and there he tested them.

He said, "If you will listen intently to the voice of ADONAI your God, do what he considers right, pay attention to his mitzvot and observe his laws, I will not afflict you with any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians; because I am ADONAI your healer."

They came to Eilim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and camped there by the water.

"Make two trumpets; make them of hammered silver. Use them for summoning the community and for sounding the call to break camp and move on.

Then Isra'el sang this song: "Spring up, oh well! Sing to the well

sunk by the princes, dug by the people's leaders with the scepter, with their staffs!" From the desert they went to Mattanah,

from Mattanah to Nachali'el, from Nachali'el to Bamot,

and from Bamot to the valley by the plain of Mo'av at the start of the Pisgah range, where it overlooks the desert.

When Y'hoshua had spoken to the people, the seven cohanim carrying the seven shofars before ADONAI passed on and blew on the shofars, with the ark for the covenant of ADONAI following them.

As Yiftach was returning to his house in Mitzpah, his daughter came dancing out to meet him with tambourines. She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter.

After that, you will come to Giv'ah of God, where the P'lishtim are garrisoned. On arrival at the city there, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by lutes, tambourines, flutes and lyres; and they will be prophesying.

Then the Spirit of ADONAI will fall on you; you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man!

Now the Spirit of ADONAI had left Sha'ul; instead, an evil spirit from ADONAI would suddenly come over him.

Sha'ul's servants said to him, "Do you notice that there's an evil spirit from God that suddenly comes over you?

Let our lord now command your servants who are here with you to look for a man who knows how to play the lyre. Then, if the evil spirit from God comes over you, he will play; and it will do you good."

Sha'ul said to his servants, "Find me a man who can play well, and bring him to me."

So it was that whenever the [evil] spirit from God came over Sha'ul, David would take the lyre and play it, with the result that Sha'ul would find relief and feel better, as the evil spirit left him.

As David and the others were returning from the slaughter of the P'lishti, the women came out of all the cities of Isra'el to meet King Sha'ul, singing and dancing joyfully with tambourines and three-stringed instruments.

In their merrymaking the women sang, "Sha'ul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands."

They led it from the house of Avinadav on the hill, with the ark of God; Achyo walked in front of the ark.

David and the whole house of Isra'el celebrated in the presence of ADONAI with all kinds of musical instruments made of cypress-wood, including lyres, lutes, tambourines, rattles and cymbals.

So David and all the house of Isra'el brought up the ark of ADONAI with shouting and the sound of the shofar.

I am now eighty years old. Can I tell good from bad? Can your servant even taste what he eats or drinks? Can I hear the voice of men and women singing any more? Why should your servant burden my lord the king?

All the people escorted him back, playing flutes and rejoicing greatly, so that the earth shook with the sound.