Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Chronicles 13:8

"And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets." — 1 Chronicles 13:8 (ASV)

Played. —Were dancing (to music).

With all their might, and with singing. —So Septuagint and Syriac. Samuel has with all woods of cypresses; a strange expression, probably due to confusion of similar letters, and transposition. The Septuagint there has in strength.

Cymbals and trumpets. —Samuel (Hebrew) has sistrums (a kind of rattle) and cymbals. The former word only occurs there. The Chronicle has a later term for cymbals (meçiltayim for çilçeţlîm).