Amos 6:5

World English Bible (2000)

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

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  • Isa 5:12 : 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
  • Amos 5:23 : 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
  • 1 Chr 23:5 : 5 four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Yahweh with the instruments which I made, for giving praise."
  • Job 21:11-12 : 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
  • Eccl 2:8 : 8 I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men--musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
  • 1 Chr 15:16 : 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • Rev 18:22 : 22 The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

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