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2Take{H8798)} a psalm, and bring{H8798)} hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Psalms 81:2

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. …

  • Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

  • Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

  • And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

  • And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

When the people of God were gathered together in the solemn day, the day of the feast of the Lord , they must be told that they had business to do, for we do not go to church to sleep nor to be idle; no, there is that which the duty of every day requires, work of the day, which is to be done in its day. And here, I. The worshippers of God are excited to their work, and are taught, by singing this…

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