John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 33:2

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Praise the Lord with harp, etc.] An instrument David was well skilled in the use of, the inventor of which was Jubal, (<010421>Genesis 4:21); sing unto, him with the psaltery; the name of this instrument is in the Hebrew language “nebel”: the account which Josephus f479 gives of this, and of the former, is, “the harp is extended with ten strings, and is plucked with a quill; the “nabla”, or psaltery, has twelve sounds, and is played upon with the fingers;” some make this and the next to be the same: [and] an instrument of ten strings; and read them together thus, “with the psaltery of ten strings”: and so the Targum, Septuagint, and other versions f480 : but it seems from Josephus that it was not a stringed instrument, but had holes, and those twelve; and besides it is distinguished from the instrument of ten strings, (<199203>Psalm 92:3); it was in the form of a bottle, from whence it had its name.

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