Bible Verses About Music

And the people murmured against Moses, saying: What shall we drink?

But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

And the children of Israel came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees: and they encamped by the waters.

Make thee two trumpets of beaten silver, wherewith thou mayest call together the multitude when the camp is to be removed.

Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:

The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.

From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.

From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.

And when Joshua had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,

And when Jephte returned into Maspha, to his house, his only daughter met him with timbrels and with dances: for he had no other children.

After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the garrison of the Philistines is: and when thou shalt be come there into the city, thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place, with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp before them, and they shall be prophesying.

And the Spirit of the Lord shall come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be changed into another man.

But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.

And the servants of Saul said to him: Behold now an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.

Let our lord give orders, and thy servants who are before thee, will seek out a man skilful in playing on the harp, that when the evil spirit from the Lord is upon thee, he may play with his hand, and thou mayst bear it more easily.

And Saul said to his servants: Provide me then some man that can play well, and bring him to me.

So whensoever the evil spirit from the Lord was upon Saul, David took his harp, and played with his hand, and Saul was refreshed, and was better, for the evil spirit departed from him.

Now when David returned, after he slew the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels of joy, and cornets.

And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

And when they had taken it out of the house of Abinadab, who was in Gabaa, Ahio having care of the ark of God went before the ark.

But David and all Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals.

And David and all the louse of Israel brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord with joyful shouting, and with sound of trumpet.

I am this day fourscore years old, are my senses quick to discern sweet and bitter? or can meat or drink delight thy servant? or can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why should thy servant be a burden to my lord, the king?

And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy, and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.