earl40
Puritan Board Professor
My understanding is that the musical instruments were associated with and used in prophesying and praise. At least some Puritans wrote that David's ministry to Saul when he was troubled by the evil spirit was that of prophesying and praising upon the harp, because musical instruments were always connected to the ministry of prophecy.
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
2 Chronicles 5:13:
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound (qowl) to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice (qowl) with the trumpets and cymbals 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...
And in 2 Chronicles 7:6:
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick of the LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
Psalm 71:22
I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
And there are other Scriptures showing how this is the case.
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I find it interesting how the use of instruments were used in worship in the temple for special events which now have passed, and may have only appeared at those events at that time.