OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 6:5

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

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Verse 5. David. They think they excel him in music; but he consecrated his talent to a better purpose. Calmet.—Septuagint “they deemed them stable, and not fugitive things.” Bible.—They have placed their chief good in such pleasures. Theod. Calmet.

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