Bible verses about "choirs" | Geneva

³¹ And I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies to giue thankes, and the one went on the right hand of the wall toward the dung gate.

¹ Blessed is the man that doeth not walke in the counsell of the wicked, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in ye seate of the scornefull: ² But his delite is in the Lawe of the Lord, and in his Lawe doeth he meditate day and night. ³ For he shall be like a tree planted by the riuers of waters, that will bring foorth her fruite in due season: whose leafe shall not fade: so whatsoeuer he shall doe, shall prosper. ⁴ The wicked are not so, but as the chaffe, which the winde driueth away. ⁵ Therefore the wicked shall not stande in the iudgement, nor sinners in the assemblie of the righteous. ⁶ For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, and the way of the wicked shall perish.

¹ To him that excelleth. A song or Psalme. Rejoice in God, all ye inhabitants of the earth.

⁴⁰ Let all things be done honestly, and by order.

¹ Praise ye the Lord. Sing ye vnto the Lord a newe song: let his prayse be heard in the Congregation of Saints.

⁷ When the starres of the morning praysed me together, and all the children of God reioyced:

³¹ And I brought vp the princes of Iudah vpon the wall, and appointed two great companies to giue thankes, and the one went on the right hand of the wall toward the dung gate. ³² And after them went Hoshaiah, and halfe of the princes of Iudah, ³³ And Azariah, Ezra and Meshullam, ³⁴ Iudah, Beniamin, and Shemaiah, and Ieremiah, ³⁵ And of the Priests sonnes with trumpets, Zechariah the sonne of Ionathan, the sonne of Shemaiah, the sonne of Mattaniah, the sonne of Michaiah, the sonne of Zaccur, ye sonne of Asaph. ³⁶ And his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azareel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethaneel, and Iudah, Hanani, with the musicall instruments of Dauid the man of God: and Ezra the scribe went before them. ³⁷ And to the gate of the fountaine, euen ouer against them went they vp by the staires of the citie of Dauid, at the going vp of the wall beyond the house of Dauid, euen vnto the water gate Eastward. ³⁸ And the seconde companie of them that gaue thankes, went on the other side, and I after them, and the halfe of the people was vpon the wall, and vpon the towre of the furnaces euen vnto the broad wall. ³⁹ And vpon the gate of Ephraim, and vpon the olde gate, and vpon the fishgate, and the towre of Hananeel, and the towre of Meah, euen vnto the sheepegate: and they stood in the gate of the warde. ⁴⁰ So stood the two companies (of them that gaue thankes) in the house of God, and I and the halfe of the rulers with me. ⁴¹ The Priests also, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, Hananiah, with trumpets, ⁴² And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Vzzi, and Iehohanan, and Malchiiah, and Elam, and Ezer: and the singers sang loude, hauing Izrahiah which was the ouerseer. ⁴³ And the same day they offered great sacrifices and reioyced: for God had giuen them great ioy, so that both the women, and the children were ioyfull: and the ioy of Ierusalem was heard farre off.

²⁶ What is to be done then, brethren? when ye come together, according as euery one of you hath a Psalme, or hath doctrine, or hath a tongue, or hath reuelation, or hath interpretation, let all things be done vnto edifying.

¹ A Psalme of Praise. Sing ye loude vnto the Lord, all the earth. ² Serue the Lord with gladnes: come before him with ioyfulnes. ³ Knowe ye that euen the Lord is God: hee hath made vs, and not we our selues: we are his people, and the sheepe of his pasture. ⁴ Enter into his gates with prayse, and into his courts with reioycing: prayse him and blesse his Name. ⁵ For the Lord is good: his mercy is euerlasting, and his trueth is from generation to generation.

¹³ Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray. Is any merie? Let him sing.

¹⁶ Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome, teaching and admonishing your owne selues, in Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs, singing with a grace in your hearts to the Lord.

¹² And the Leuites the singers of all sortes, as of Asaph, of Heman, of Ieduthun, and of their sonnes and of their brethren, being clad in fine linen, stoode with cymbales, and with violes and harpes at the East ende of the altar, and with them an hundreth and twentie Priestes blowing with trumpets: ¹³ And they were as one, blowing trumpets, and singing, and made one sounde to bee heard in praysing and thanking the Lord, and when they lift vp their voyce with trumpets and with cymbales, and with instruments of musicke, and when they praysed the Lord, singing, For he is good, because his mercie lasteth for euer) then the house, euen the house of the Lord was filled with a cloude, ¹⁴ So that the Priests could not stand to minister, because of the cloude: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.