Lexicon :: Strong's H5035 - neḇel

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two jugs of wine, five sheep already prepared [for roasting], five measures of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.

When David was a little past the summit [of the Mount of Olives], behold, Ziba, the servant of [fn]Mephibosheth, met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a [fn]jug of wine.

Then David told the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives as the singers, with instruments of music—harps, lyres, and cymbals—to play loudly and to raise sounds of joy [with their voices].

Moreover, David and the commanders of the army selected for the [temple] service some of the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who were to [fn]prophesy with lyres, harps, and cymbals. The list of the musicians who performed their service was as follows:

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with harps, and with lyres, in accordance with the command of David [his ancestor] and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the LORD through His prophets.

Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places in order to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving, and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps, and lyres.

“Who can count the clouds by [earthly] wisdom,

Or pour out the water jars of the heavens,

Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre;

Sing praises to Him with the harp of ten strings.

Awake, my glory!

Awake, harp and lyre!

I will awaken the dawn.

I will also praise You with the harp,

Your truth and faithfulness, O my God;

To You I will sing praises with the lyre,

O Holy One of Israel.

Raise a song, sound the timbrel,

The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

With an instrument of ten strings and with the harp,

With a solemn sound on the lyre.

Awake, harp and lyre;

I will awaken the dawn!

I will sing a new song to You, O God;

Upon a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You,

Praise Him with trumpet sound;

Praise Him with harp and lyre.

They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts;

But they do not regard nor even pay attention to the deeds of the LORD,

Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

‘Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,

Along with the music of your harps;

The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed]

And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

“So they will hang on him all the honor and glory [the complete responsibility] of his father’s house, offspring and issue [of the family, high and low], all the least of the articles, from the bowls to all the jars.

Whose collapse is like the smashing of a potter’s jar,

Crushed so savagely

that there cannot be found among its pieces a potsherd [large enough]

To take [coals of] fire from a fireplace,

Or to scoop water from a cistern.”

“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, “Every jar should be filled with wine.”’ The people will say to you, ‘Do we not already know that every jar should be filled with wine?’

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD, “when I will send to Moab those who will tip him over and who will empty his vessels and break his [earthenware] jars in pieces.

The [noble and] precious sons of Zion,

[Once] worth their weight in fine gold,

How they are regarded [merely] as earthen jars,

The work of a potter’s hands!

“Take the noise of your songs away from Me [they are an irritation]!

I shall not even listen to the melody of your harps.

Who improvise to the sound of the harp—

Like David they have composed songs for themselves—