Occurrences
Mᵉtsêleth occurs 13 times in the King James.
Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Chronicles (8), 2 Chronicles (3), Ezra (1), Nehemiah (1)
- 1 Chronicles 13:8 — And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals (וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֖יִם), and with trumpets.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16 — And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals (וּמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם), sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
- 1 Chronicles 15:19 — So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals (בִּמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם) of brass;
- 1 Chronicles 15:28 — Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals (וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם), making a noise with psalteries and harps.
- 1 Chronicles 16:5 — Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals (בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֥יִם);
- 1 Chronicles 16:42 — And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals (וּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙) for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
- 1 Chronicles 25:1 — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals (וּבִמְצִלְתָּ֑יִם): and the number of the workmen according to their service was:
- 1 Chronicles 25:6 — All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals (בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙), psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12 — Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals (בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙) and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
- 2 Chronicles 5:13 — It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals (וּבִמְצִלְתַּ֜יִם) and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 — And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals (בִּמְצִלְתַּ֙יִם֙), with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.
- Ezra 3:10 — And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals (בַּֽמְצִלְתַּ֔יִם), to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
- Nehemiah 12:27 — And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals (מְצִלְתַּ֖יִם), psalteries, and with harps.