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The Joyful Return

2 Chronicles 20:28

In 11 translations

BSB
So they entered Jerusalem and went into the house of the LORD with harps, lyres, and trumpets.
KJV
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
WEB
They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments, harps, and trumpets to Yahweh’s house.
ASV
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of Jehovah.
LSV
And they come to Jerusalem with psalteries, and with harps, and with trumpets, to the house of YHWH.
YLT
And they come in to Jerusalem with psalteries, and with harps, and with trumpets, unto the house of Jehovah.
DBY
And they came to Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, to the house of Jehovah.
DRC
And they came into Jerusalem with psalteries, and harps, and trumpets into the house of the Lord.
GNV
And they came to Ierusalem with viols and with harpes, and with trumpets, euen vnto the house of the Lord.
JPS
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the LORD.
LXXE
And they entered into Jerusalem with lutes and harps and trumpets, going into the house of the Lord.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וַיָּבֹ֨אוּ֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם בִּנְבָלִ֥ים וּבְכִנֹּר֖וֹת וּבַחֲצֹצְר֑וֹת אֶל־בֵּ֖ית יְהוָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ εἰσῆλθον εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν νάβλαις καὶ κινύραις καὶ ἐν σάλπιγξιν εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Revelation 14:2–3And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the…
  • Psalms 150:3–5Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre. Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute. Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.
  • Psalms 57:8Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
  • 1 Chronicles 25:6All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the…
  • 2 Samuel 6:5David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
  • Psalms 149:3Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
  • Psalms 92:3with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
  • 1 Chronicles 23:54,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
  • 1 Chronicles 13:8David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

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