Musical Instruments Mentioned in the Bible
Miscellaneous Instruments
Harp and organ
Genesis 4:21
Among first instruments mentioned.
Organ
Job 21:12; Psalm 150:4
Sound of...
Ram's horns
Joshua 6:4
Blown by seven priests when they marched around Jericho.
Tabrets and other musical instruments
Genesis 31:27; I Samuel 18:5,6; Job 17:6; Isaiah 5:12; 24:8; 30:32; Jeremiah 31:4; Ezekiel 28:13
Played by women from all the cities of Israel to meet David and King Saul.

Also included in devil's own design.

Psaltery, harp and cymbals
I Chronicles 16:1-5
Asaph played the cymbals when King David brought the ark to Jerusalem.
Cymbals
II Samuel 6:5; I Chronicles 13:8; 15:16, 19, 28; 16:5, 42; 25:1, 6; II Chronicles 5:12, 13; 29:25; Ezra 3:10; Psalm 150:5
With cornets, trumpets, etc. and some loud and some high sounding.
Trumpets
see separate page
 
Cornet
I Chronicles 15:28; Psalm 98:6; 
Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15; Hosea 5:8; II Samuel 6:5; II Chronicles 15:14; I Corinthians 13:1
Blow; with sound of the cornet, etc. and one reference to tinkling cymbals.
Timbrel, harp and organ
Job 21:12
Mentioned by Job.
Neginoth
Psalm 4 (title)
Many of the psalms had instructions in their titles to play the psalm on neginoth or stringed instruments.
Cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery and the dulcimer
Daniel 3:1-7
The signal to worship King Nebuhadnezzar's golden image was the playing of these instruments.
The sound of the viol
Isaiah 14:11; Amos 6:1,5
...and the noise of the viol...
Amos complained about those who were "at ease in Zion" ... who "chant to the sound of the viol."
Pipes
I Samuel 10:5; I Kings 1:40; 
Isaiah 5:12; 30:29; Jeremiah 48:36; Ezekiel 28:13; Zechariah 4:2, 12; Matthew 11:17; Luke 7:32; I Corinthians 14:7; Revelation 18:22; 
Pipe, piped, pipes and pipers are mentioned.
Harp
Genesis 4:21; 31:27; I Samuel 10:5; 16:16, 23; II Samuel 6:5; 
I Kings 10:12; I Chronicles 13:8; 15:16, 21, 28; 16:5; 25:1, 3, 6; II Chronicles 5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25; Nehemiah 12:27; Job 21:12; 30:31; Psalm 33:2; 43:4; 49:4; 57:8; 71:22; 81:2; 92:3; 98:5; 108:2; 137:2; 147:7; 149:3; 150:3; Isaiah 5:12; 16:11; 23:16; 24:8; 30:32; Ezekiel 26:13; Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15; I Corinthians 14:7; Revelation 5:8; 14:2; 15:2; 18:22
There is joy in a harp; it was used for prophecy, David was cunning on it, people sang with it, it is pleasant to hear.
Horns
Joshua 6:4, 6, 13
Ram's horns
Psalteries
I Samuel 10:5; II Samuel 6:5; 
I Kings 10:12; I Chronicles 13:8; 15:16, 20, 28; 16:5; 25:1, 6; II Chronicles 5:12; 9:11; 20:28; 29:25; Nehemiah 12:27; Psalm 33:2; 57:8; 71:22; 81:2; 92:3; 108:2; 144:9; 150:3; Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15
pleasant instrument, used in praises along with cymbals quite often and harpers.
Sackbut
Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15
Similiar to our trombone today.
Timbrel
Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 
II Samuel 6:5; I Chronicles 13:8; Job 21:12; Psalm 68:25; 81:2; 149:3; 150:4
Played along with psalteries

Instruments

Numbers 31:6
Holy instruments
I Samuel 18:6; I Chronicles 15:16; 16:42; 
II Chronicles 5:1, 13; 7:6; Nehemiah 12:36; 
Ecclesiastes 2:8
Instruments of music
II Chronicles 23:13
Singers with instruments of music
II Chronicles 30:21
Loud instruments
II Chronicles 34:12
Skilled
Psalm 68:25; 87:7
Players on instruments
Psalm 150:4
Stringed instruments
Amos 6:5
Invented to themselves.

Music

I Samuel 18:6;
Instruments of...
I Chronicles 15:16; II Chronicles 23:13
With singers of...
II Chronicles 5:13
With cymbals...
II Chronicles 7:6
Music of the Lord
II Chronicles 34:12
Skill of instruments
Ecclesiastes 12:4
Daughters of music brought low
Lamentations 3:63
I am their music!
Lamentations 5:14
Young men from their music.
Daniel 3:5, 7, 10, 15
All kinds of music
Amos 6:5
Invented to themselves
Luke 15:25
...and dancing
Revelation 18:22
Musicians...

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