1 Chronicles 13:8

Played before God . The Hebrew word is the Piel of שׂחק , the root of which, from the simplest meaning of "to laugh" (and with the two appropriate prepositions used for laughing with an expression of derision or contempt), through the two further meanings of "sporting" and " jesting ," passes to the signification of dancing" ( 1 Samuel 18:7 ; Jeremiah 31:4 ). Its deepest idea seems to be "to make merry," and to savour of the very same ambiguity attaching to that idiom with ourselves. The parallel of this passage exhibits "before the Lord." With all their might . See the evident mistake of the parallel ("on all manner of instruments made of firwood," literally, with all firwoods ) through similarity of the Hebrew characters. Cymbals and… trumpets . Of the five names of musical instruments, the same in number in both passages, the first three are the same in the Hebrew, but these last two are different words, וּבִמְצִלְתַּיִם וּבַחֲצֹצְרוֹת here for וּבִמנַענִעים וּבְצלְצליִם A variation of this particular kind again indicates with some decisiveness the different character and the number of the sources from which the writers of the Books of Samuel and those of Chronicles took.