1 Chronicles 13:8

played The Heb. word means to sport, to dance(cp. 1 Chronicles 15:29).

with alltheir might, and with singing A better reading than that of 2 Samuel 6:5, with all manner ofinstruments made of fir wood.

and with singing R.V. even with songs.

psalteries The instrument here meant (Heb. nçbhel) "is generally identified at the present day with an instrument called the santirstill in use among the Arabs. This consists of a long box with a flat bottom covered with a somewhat convex sounding-board over which the strings are stretched." (Nowack, Hebräische Arckäologie, I. 275.) The "harp" (Heb. kinnôr) was a simpler instrument, a lyrerather than a true harp.

For a full discussion of nçbheland kinnôrsee Driver, Amos, p. 234.