Bible Strands
2 Chronicles 20:28
So they entered Jerusalem and went into the house of the LORD with harps, lyres, and trumpets.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator describes the Judahite army immediately following their divinely granted victory, as they return to Jerusalem and proceed directly to the temple.
The words — The text highlights נְבָלִים (nevalim), meaning lyres, and חֲצֹצְרוֹת (chatstserot), meaning trumpets, as the specific instruments brought into the temple.
The thread — This procession with musical instruments echoes the celebratory worship in 2 Samuel 6:5 and 1 Chronicles 13:8, while the heavenly sound in Revelation 14:2 parallels the public testimony of divine intervention.
Why it lands — The passage records a historical return to the temple accompanied by specific instruments, requiring the reader to recognize the text as a factual report of post-victory worship rather than a symbolic prophecy.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord.
Cross-references
- Revelation 14:2 And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
- 2 Samuel 6:5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 23:5 4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
- 1 Chronicles 25:6 All these were under the direction of their fathers for the music of the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the direction of the king.
- Psalms 57:8 Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
- Psalms 92:3 with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
- Psalms 149:3 Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
- Psalms 150:3 Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.