2 Samuel 6:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

instruments made of fir wood. The Septuagint reads "with all boldness and with songs". See 2 Samuel 6:14 and 1 Chronicles 13:8. According to Hebrew text "fir woods", put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Material) for instruments made from it. App-6.

timbrels. drums. See note on Exodus 15:20.

cymbals. timbrels, or tambourines. Hebrew. zilzilim. See note on 1 Chronicles 13:8.

2 Samuel 6:5

5 And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.