OLD TESTAMENT

1 Chronicles 16:5

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Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;

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Verse 5. Zacharias, at the head of the second band. These played on the nable and kinnor, as the women did not sing in the tabernacle. Jahiel should be Oziel, (Calmet. 15:18, and so forth Calmet.) unless he be the same person. Calmet. 15:18. Bible.—Instruments. Lit. “organs.” Bible.—Hebrew “the instruments of nables.” Vat. Menochius.

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