and Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with stringed instruments set to Alamoth;
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 20. Zacharias, and so forth presided over the second band, with nables, and Mathathias over the third, which had instruments of eight strings. The priests sounded the trumpets, (verse 24.) which Chonenias directed all the music, in this solemn processions. Calmet.—Psalteries. Lit. “nables.” Bible.—The Vulg. sometimes renders it psalterion, at other times lyra, ( Menochius.) or symphonia. Saint Jerome ad Dard. Tirinus.—Some have supposed that the word denotes bagpipes; but it was a stringed instrument made of wood. Calmet.—Hebrew “with nebalim over halamoth,” concerted things, or virgins, (Psalms 67:26) who sung the mysterious words of God. Bible.