» HEBREW 
about 19739 years before Chiif, according to the Hebrew 
chronology, bot — boi inftrumental mufic are fpoken 
of ast in com 
& And Laban faid ‘6 ach what haft beri done, that 
thou haft ftolen away unawares to me, and carried away my 
daughters, % as captives taken with the fword ?’ 
«* Wherefore didft thou flee away ferelly: and fteal 
away from me? and didit not tell me, that I might have 
fent thee andy with mirth and with fongs, with tabret, and 
with harp ?"’ 
Laban was a isk an, and brother to. Rebecca, Ifaac's 
wife; fo that the tabret and the harp fhould be ranked 
amon Affyrian inftruments 
ter this time the facred text furnithes no mufical inci- 
jut Sos om bon 
« Then fang Moles wed the children of Ifrael this fong 
unto the Lord, and fpake, faying, | I will fing unto the Lor 
for he hath triumphed glorioufly,” &c. Exod. xv. 
Mofes is ori on this seeahen by Miriam, the pro- 
phetefs, and fifter aron, who * took a timbrel in her 
nd, ver. 20}; an fall the women went out after her with 
— and with dances.”’ 
And Miriam anfwered them, = ye to the Lord,”’ 
ic. 
Here is an early initance of women being permitted to 
_ Bear a part in the performance of religious rites, as well as 
of i mufie being accompanied by inftrumental, and by 
as <5 
St. Stephen tells us (Aéts, vii. ver. sha 22.) that Mofes, 
having been oe by Pharaoh's hter “ as her own 
MUSIC. 
fignals for the hears to sharch and fhout by, in order, by. 
their noife, to terrify and difmay the’enemy 
pon this aeeibe all the powers of the n umber fovén 
were put in practice. ** Seven priefts fhall bear before them. 
feven trumpets, and the feventh day ye hall compafs the 
city sth — and the priefts fhall blow with the trumpets.” 
J ie 
But here an incident a. which feems to merit pat 
ticular attentién. It a rs from many paffages in ferip- 
oe that mufic was as ‘ety allied to prophecy as to 
oe 
P 
Wien ‘Samuel, ois ay anointing Saul ide ng, in 
itruéts the new mon in the meafures he is to purfue for 
eftablifhing himfelf 0 on rte ite, he fays, * And it 
o is ignoraat, ee $ ; Chcsallang that mufic in ancient 
times was fo much clavanetl, and held in fuch veneration, 
that muficians were called by the names of pr ropbets and 
fon, was ed in all the wifdom of ae gyptians.” And ages ? 
_€lemens Aaenn particularizes his acquirements, by Vates, in Latin, is a common'term for “prophet; poet, and 
affirming that “ he was inftruéted in his maturer age by the mu fi a Clemens Alexandrinus, defcribing the hifferent 
Ee in all liberal fciences, as arithmetic, Sah kinds of E. 
rhythm, oie tee but, above all, medicine and mufic. 
erwife than as it is con- 
religious rites and the military art.. Accord- 
ingly we find no other mufical ‘athsunicn mentioned durin 
adminiftration of the 
po gee except the timbrel, ufed by Miriam. Numb 
chap. x. 2. ivine command to make two 
po seated of og of a £ iw le piece, ¢ for ee toge- 
> r journeying the camps.” And i 
‘the the eight iii ier=8 all the fignals to be founded b: 
by two trum regulated. But thefe inftru- 
sisaed ey it to differ from that of the got in Betiaet but 
the materials of which wets were made ; ebrew text, 
and the feveral verfions, acree*in callin 
5’ 
The featt of trumpets inftituted by 
in we na of § 
of h; 
ot only the feventh 
: week, the fevei ae pee the feventh 
year, and aie itthed ferent ear, were kept holy ; « and 
on the fiftie ad daoueh ee aves the tin of the j 
a rhe biped oe land.” Levi ies 5 a 
trumpets’ ste ir ufed at the fF 
—_ to have been lefs mufical Striker Shae x oo 
he 
yptian Jae and their funétions, brik that t 
principal a ther were called prophets. The oracles of the 
ancients were deliver 
write rine verfes, fing at the time vet sonipk them. 
The Revels in te ee of this union = mufic and 
prophecy are nu er, David, and the cap- 
fons of 
Giang of the per 
the prophets, of jee te their mind exciting 1 the 
themfelves divine me y means of F its is in 
ook of 
The three fovereigns of egel- Judah, and te upon 
ing with their thro 
the point of hey devoyed uh thirtt, as heat was no water 
sealer as their paflage either for mam or beatt. ahaa 
