1 Chronicles 15:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

By lifting up the voice with joy Singing so loud that all might hear, and having their hearts lifted up to God with joy. There was scarce any solemn service performed to their gods, either by Greeks or barbarians, without both vocal and instrumental music.

1 Chronicles 15:16

16 And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.