^6:5while David and all Israel⁸ were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing⁹ and playing various stringed instruments,¹⁰ tambourines, rattles,¹¹ and cymbals.

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Footnotes

8 Heb “all the house of Israel.”
9 Heb “were celebrating before the Lord with all woods of fir” (cf. , , ). If the text is retained, the last expression must be elliptical, referring to musical instruments made from fir wood. But it is preferable to emend the text in light of 1 Chr 13:8, which reads “were celebrating before the Lord with all strength and with songs.”
10 Heb “with zithers [?] and with harps.”
11 That is, “sistrums” (so , ); , , , , “castanets.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

David and the whole house of Israel were dancing before the Lord with all kinds of fir wood instruments, lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

NLTNew Living Translation

David and all the people of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, singing songs and playing all kinds of musical instruments—lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets, and cymbals.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Now David and all the house of Israel were dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of musical instruments made from ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

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