HEBREW 
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And the king ‘of Ifrael faid, alas! that the Lord hath 
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nd faid, here is Elifha, the fon of Shaphat. 
Ifrael and Jehofhaphat, and the king 
down to him.—And Elitha faid, bring me a minftrel. And 
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Lord, make this valley 
David, by having cultivated mufic fo early in youth, feems 
to have been intended by his family for the grofeff-n of a pro- 
phet. St. Ambrofe fays, that he had always the gift of 
‘prophecy, and was chofen by God himfelf, in preference — 
toall other prophets, to compofe pfalms. (Pref. in Pfal. i.) 
ee Davin. 
It has ever been the cuftom of legiflators and founders of 
. religion, in compliance with the prejudices of mankind, to re- 
tain part of the former laws and The 
“po divided the inhabitants of their country into 
pa : : 
in order to conciliate parties, and 
of a new worfhip, made bot 
priefts and muficians hereditary in the tribe of Levi. * And 
the’ fons of Aaron the 
fo difcordant are the commentators on 
op ar itus ac Rome, er 
1s Luppofed that the {poils brought by that emperor from 
Jerufalem have been ats aplicaed in fculpture 
Among’ thefe are feveral mutical .inftruments, particularly 
~ filver : the Hebrews chatzotzeroth ; 
often 
sumpets. s 
‘But the arch upon which thefe inftruments are riers 4 
‘though, according to Venuti, of excellent workmanthip, 
Was not erected till after the death of Titus; and, to fay 
the-truth, the iniftruments ane-of no nnconution form. - The 
‘fumpets are lo ight Y trumpets Id 
be ite re ng ftraight tubes, as modern m2 se 
The reign of Solomon, fo long, fo-pacific, and fo glorious 
prt Hebrews, may rohan as'the Auguftan age of 
‘at people ; whofe profperity, during this period, not only 
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enabled them to cultivate arts and fciences among themfelves, 
but fltimulated foreigners to vifit and a nem. And as 
-we find that the Romans, during the time of Auguttus, an 
and his fucceffors, 
part of their knowledge in the polite arts, fo the Hebrews, 
under: Solomon’s- 
and from Tyre. 
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ple, at the dedication of which, if we may credit Jofephus, 
** Solomon made two hundred thoufand trumpets, according 
to the ordinance of Mofes; (Mofes. was ordered to make 
- neither bear the marks o pees nor fidelity ; but we 
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have information from miuc 
lomon appointed, according to the order of David his 
the courfes. of the prieits to their fervice, and the Levites 
‘to their charges, to praife and minifter before the priefts, as 
the duty of every day required.” 
It is the opinion of many expounders and commentators 
of the facred writings, that Solomon was author of fome of 
the Pfalms that are attributed to David. Of this we are 
certain, that he was no lefs fond of poetry than his father. 
In the firft of Kings, i xxv. we are told that «“ he 
: and his fongs were a thou- 
royal Pfalmift, he 
better authority, « So- 
he 
and vexations of {pirit, with which he found himfelf fatiated : 
I and the delights 
as mufical inftruments, and that of all 
forts :” which is all that can be gathered on the fubje& of 
fcripture 
the paflage 
thites, and the children of the Korahites, ftood 
up to praife the of Ifrael with a loud voice on 
igh.—And when Jehofhaphat had ul ith the 
people, he appointed unto the Lord, and that fhould 
fin 
praife the et ot hain = sre went out before the 
, and to fay, prai > Lord, for his m endureth for 
(it: “Aadguluntbeybereh to Big and 
t ambufhments againft the 
Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come again Judah, 
to the animation gi by the trumpets, which 
-were always blown by priefts and Levites, whom the people 
and regarded as 
es * And 
father, 
vain luxuries . 
fing and to_praife *, the. - 
children of Ammon, 
mrad esr 3 . ie & : 
The Hebrews oh ier attributed their fuccefs in battle 
