Nehemiah 12:27
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Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres. (NASB ©1995)

1 Chronicles 15:16 Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

1 Chronicles 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres. (NASB ©1995)


And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

A.M. 3559. B.C. 445. the dedication. Jerusalem was the holy city, and the wall was built under the immediate superintendence and blessing of Jehovah: it was therefore proper that it should be dedicated to that God who was there worshipped by solemn praises, prayers, and sacrifices. The dedication seems to have consisted in processions of the most eminent persons around the walls, with thanksgivings to God, who had enabled them to bring the work to so happy a conclusion; and, no doubt, to all this were added a particular consecration of the city to God, and the most earnest invocation that He would take it under His guardianship, and defend it and its inhabitants against their enemies.

De 20:5 Ps 30:1-12 *title

out. 11:20 1Ch 15:4,12 25:6 26:31 2Ch 5:13 29:4-11,30 Ezr 8:15-20

gladness. 8:17 De 16:11 2Sa 6:12 2Ch 29:30 Ezr 6:16 Ps 98:4-6 100:1,2 Php 4:4

thanksgivings. 1Ch 13:8 15:16,28 16:5,42 23:5 25:1-6 2Ch 5:13 7:6 Ezr 3:10,11 Ps 81:1-4 92:1-3 149:3 150:2-5 Re 5:8

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