Identifier: handbookofbiblec00whit (find matches)
Title: A handbook of Bible and church music ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Whitlock, John Aston
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Publisher: London, S.P.C.K.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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t-brokensorrow over the unfortunate King of Israel andhis brave sons—one of whom was the noble,well-beloved Jonathan—slain and mangled bythe • uncircumcised Philistines. And Davidlamented with this lamentation over Saul andover Jonathan his son : The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places!How are the mighty fallen ! . . . Saul andJnnathan were lovely and pleasant in thelHives,And in their death they were not divided ;They were swifter than eagles,They were stronger than lions. . . .How are the mighty fallen,And the weapons of war perished ! 2. David was now virtually monarch supremeover Israel. Yet he did not the less remaina musician and a poet. As soon as he foundhimself thoroughly and securely seated upon thethrone, his first attention was directed to thelamentable condition of religion among thechosen people, and he made it his first dutyto bring up the ark from Kirjath-jearim, on theconfines of Philistia, to its proper resting-place MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 29
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ASSYRIAN HARPIST, BEATING TIME WITH HIS FOOT Probably such a harp as David carried, about four feet high.From the lower bar ornamental tassels or fringes depended.Domenichinos picture, David playing before the Ark, ismisleading, as it gives a front pillar and sounding-hoard. Seech. ii. 2, p. 14. 30 PATRIARCHAL AND HEBREW in the city of David (i Sam. vii. i ; 2 Sam. vi. 2 ;on the names of the town cf. Josh. xv. 9, 60).On this festive occasion Sacred Music on a moreextensive scale than heretofore was introduced.And before the thousands of Israel, who hadbeen invited to attend and escort the ark, whichwas placed upon a new cart. David and allIsrael played before God with all their might,and with singing, and with harps, and withpsalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals,and with trumpets (1 Chron. xiii. i sqq.). Theaccount given in the Book of Samuel is asfollows : And David and all the house of Israelplayed before the Lord on all manner of instru-ments made of fir-wood, even on har

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