Ancient Harp from Ur

Harp with 11 Strings
From Ancient Ur
Notice this harp has 11 strings with a nicely ornamented sounding board with a ram's head at the end.
"And Saul's servants said unto
him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. Let our lord now
command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a
cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil
spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou
shalt be well."
1 Samuel 16:15-16
"And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on
harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals."
2 Samuel 6:5
"After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a
harp, before them; and they shall prophesy: And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
1 Samuel 10:5-6
1
Samuel 16:23 - And it came to pass, when the [evil] spirit
from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and
played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the
evil spirit departed from him.
1 Samuel
10:5 - After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where
[is] the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass,
when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a
company of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery,
and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and
they shall prophesy:
Daniel 3:15
- Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer,
and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I
have made; [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same
hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who [is] that
God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
Psalms 57:8
- Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I
[myself] will awake early.
Daniel 3:7
- Therefore at that time, when all the people heard the sound of the
cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds
of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down
[and] worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had
set up.
1
Chronicles 25:3 - Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun;
Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six,
under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a
harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
Psalms
108:2 - Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself]
will awake early.
1 Samuel
16:16 - Let our lord now command thy servants, [which are]
before thee, to seek out a man, [who is] a cunning player on an
harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit
from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou
shalt be well.
Daniel 3:10
- Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear
the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut,
psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and
worship the golden image:
Isaiah
23:16 - Take an harp, go about the city, thou
harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs,
that thou mayest be remembered.
Daniel 3:5
- [That] at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute,
harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick,
ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the
king hath set up:
Psalms
147:7 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise
upon the harp unto our God:
Psalms
150:3 - Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him
with the psaltery and harp.
Genesis
31:27 - Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal
away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee
away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Psalms
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.
Isaiah 24:8
- The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice
endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Isaiah 5:12
- And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe,
and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the
LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
1
Corinthians 14:7 - And even things without life giving
sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a
distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or
harped?
Isaiah
16:11 - Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp
for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.
Psalms 33:2
- Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the
psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
Genesis
4:21 - And his brother's name [was] Jubal: he was the father
of all such as handle the harp and organ.
Job 30:31
- My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ
into the voice of them that weep.
Psalms 49:4
- I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying
upon the harp.
Psalms 81:2
- Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant
harp with the psaltery.
Psalms 92:3
- Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the
harp with a solemn sound.
Psalms
149:3 - Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing
praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Job 21:12
- They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the
sound of the organ.
Psalms 43:4
- Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy:
yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Psalms 98:5
- Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the
harp, and the voice of a psalm.
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