Graphic Bible · Scene 12 of 14

Wide ceremonial music assembly east of massive square bronze altar. Linen-robed singers hold bronze cymbals, small wooden harps and lyres; rows of priests blow slender straight metal trumpets. Ancient instruments correct hand use, no modern brass valves, no modern guitar. Representative crowd, not claiming count120. Warm sunlight, canonical temple behind.
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2 Chronicles 5:12

Linen, Strings, and Trumpets

The Ark and the Filling Cloud · 2 Chronicles 5

Story guide: Linen-clad musicians play cymbals, lyres, and harps opposite the priestly trumpeters.

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12And the Levites who were the singers—all of them, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers—were clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps, and lyres, standing east of the altar; and with them were one hundred twenty priests blowing trumpets.

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