1 Kings 1:40

piped with pipes The LXX. adopting some slight alteration of the Hebrew, renders -danced in dances." And Josephus speaks of the people (Antiq. vii. 14, 5) as -dancing and playing on pipes"; thus shewing a desire to combine both readings. That the Israelites were likely to have pipeson such an occasion seems probable from 1 Samuel 10:5, where they are enumerated among the instruments used by the company of prophets.

rent with the sound The Hebrew text implies -cleaving asunder" and must, if correct, be taken as hyperbolic: that it is correct seems clear from the LXX. which has -was broken asunder" (ἐῤῥάγη), though a slight change in the letters of the Hebrew (reading תקע for בקע) would give the meaning which the Vulgate has, -insonuit," i.e. resounded. Josephus appears thus to have understood the phrase, whatever reading he had, for he writes -from the multitude of the instruments all the earth and the air resounded."