John Gill's Exposition on Psalms 96:4

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Praise him with the timbrel and dance, etc.] Or “pipe”f1983; (see Gill on “<19E903>Psalm 149:3”); praise him with stringed instruments; or divers “kinds”f1984 of instruments not named, as R. Saadiah Gaon; and which, as Aben Ezra says, had all one sound or note; what they were is not known, as also many of them that are particularly mentioned; and organs; which have their name from the loveliness of their sound; these are of ancient original and use, (<010421>Genesis 4:21 <182112>Job 21:12 30:31); but were not of the same kind with those now in use, which are of much later invention.

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