Music seems to have been a regular accompaniment of prophecy in the "schools of the prophets" (marginal reference), and an occasional accompaniment…

Bring me a minstrel.— Mĕnaggçn — i.e., a harper, player on a stringed instrument (nĕgînâh). Elisha called for music as a…

But now bring me a minstrel
A piper, a man that knows how to play upon the harp, as the Targum; according to Procopi…

The king of Israel laments their distress and the danger they were in. He called these kings together, yet he charges it to Providence. Thus th…