. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. erest. Infact he had, on a smaller scale, already introduced a musical service at the tabernacle. Henot only caused the musical instruments for this service to be made under his own cognisance,but collected and composed the psalms of thanksgiving and of prayer which were to be em-ployed in this part of the temple worship. Of these we have already had occasion to of this service was vocal. With respect to the musical instruments, all the variousinstruments which were in use among the Hebr
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. erest. Infact he had, on a smaller scale, already introduced a musical service at the tabernacle. Henot only caused the musical instruments for this service to be made under his own cognisance,but collected and composed the psalms of thanksgiving and of prayer which were to be em-ployed in this part of the temple worship. Of these we have already had occasion to of this service was vocal. With respect to the musical instruments, all the variousinstruments which were in use among the Hebrews are, on different occasions, named inconnection with the services of the temple. There is some difficulty in identifying the stringedinstruments thus named, but not the others. Such information as we have been able to obtainconcerning the stringed instruments has been given in a former work,t and we are not dis-posed to repeat it in this place. As, however, there is every reason to conclude that theinstruments in use among them were such as the Egyptians also possessed, we here introduce. [Egyptian Stringed Instruments.] a representation of those belonging to the last-named people. As our attention is limited tothe regulations made by David and enforced by Solomon, we abstain from any larger notice ofthe music and psalmody of the Levitical service. In this as in all the other divisions of service,there were some who were chiefs or overseers. The persons of the musical order who, fromtheir superior abilities, had the superintendence of all the others, were Heman and Asaph, ofthe line of Gershon, and Jeduthun of the line of Merari. Their names often occur in thetitles of the Psalms, which were sent to them as composed by David, for the musical service. The remaining 6000 Levites were distributed throughout the country as judges andgenealogists. They also appear to have instructed the people in the Law of Moses, by ex-pounding the several parts of it, in the places where they
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