David Faust: God Prophesied Instrumental Music 

David Faust Cincinnati Christian University (NCCA): God Prophesied the use of Instrumental Music in the church in Psalm 87? Rick Atchley says that God commanded instrumental praise and we should not be disobedient.  The Bible begins and ends by associating music with the fall in the garden and the Mother of Harlots (Revelation 17) who uses singers and instrument players whom John called sorcerers (Revelation 18) who HAD deceived the whole world.  Then is this the great delusion Paul promised in 2 Thessalonians. The Christian church has enlisted a few dupes in an attempt to deliberately sow discord in order to restore the unity of two groups which were never kissing kin.

Psalm 87 is the usual "prophecy of instrumental music" in the church: if so, then Jesus missed a good chance to affirm it when he cast out the musical minstrels "like dung" and consigned the pipers, singers and dancers to the commercial-pagan polluted Agora or marketplace.  First, some background: 

"The truth is that these pseudo-intellectuals are virtually alone in their contention that they have made no basic shift in religious emphasis. I do not believe that there is a reputable scholar in the country who would not consider their protestations the ridiculous aberrations of blinded religionists. Everyone knows the situation in the church of Christ today except the liberal 'intellectuals.'" " The smug liberal 'Church-of-Christer' intellectual does not have the support of modern scholarship; he is exposed by it" (Emergence of the 'Church of Christ Denomination p. 27). Dr. David Edwin Harrell, Jr.

This is a rough collection of notes to match David Faust's, Rick Atchley and all of the Christian church writers who twist every Biblical passage and church scholar seeking validation for their musical sectarian where music is THE mark of legalism.

Without going into detail, in part one we looked at a primary PROOF that god wanted the use of instruments to  drive Him into charismatic ecstasy.  The fact is that music is the MARK and cause of all falls from Grace; Did Jesus NOT address the instrumental issue?

We saw that: 

1. God promised David a TENT
2. BUT, Solomon built Him a House
3. BUT, God doesn't live in man-made houses nor is He "worshipped" by the WORKS of human hands.
4. A musical instrument is defined as a MACHINE for doing hard work or producing shock and awe.
5. The goal of all pagan religions was to WORK people into a frenzy to make the feel the presence of the "gods" which they called demons.
6. When they made the great, crashing sound God SHUT DOWN the once easy access to the Mercy Seat and His Grace because only one person once a year could go before the throne of Grace.
7. The Restored Fallen Tabernacle of David is the church of Christ which is the ekklesia or school of the Bible and, as in David's Tabernacle, uses no musical instruments to silence the Word of God.  The Sacrifices have ceased.
   

ALL musical events in the Bible are the cause or mark of God abandoning people to their own evil works.  Here is what David Faust wants you to believe about a "god in his own image." In 2 Chronicles 5:13-14

David Faust: "Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God" God's "glory" in the form of a cloud was an expression of God's joy, pleasure, approval, and deligh

Do ye hear how it is most plainly declared, that God did not from the first require these at your hands? Had He required them, He would have obliged those famous saints who were before the Law to observe this practice.
`Then wherefore has He permitted it now?

In condescension to your infirmity. As a physician in his treatment of a delirious patient, etc.:
thus did God likewise. For seeing them so frantic in their lust for sacrifices, that they were ready,
unless they got them, to desert to idols: nay not only ready,

but that they had already deserted, thereupon He permitted sacrifices. And that this is the reason, is clear from the order of events.

After the feast which they made to the demons, then it was that He permitted sacrifices: all but saying: `Ye are mad, and will needs sacrifice: well then, at any rate sacrifice to Me. 0'"-(What follows may serve to illustrate the brief remark a little further on, Kai h aixmalwsia kathgoria thj kakiaj.)

"But even this, He did not permit to continue to the end, but by a most wise method, withdrew them from it ...

For He did not permit it to be done in any place of the whole world,

but in Jerusalem only. Anon, when for a short time
they had sacrificed, he destroyed the city.

So here: "Even the captivity impeaches the wickedness (which was the cause of the permission of sacrifice.") 

Jesus made sure that the temple was destroyed and most if not all of the singers and instrument players died and were burned up at Topheth just as Isaiah 30 prophesied that all "national" systems will go into hell to the BEAT of wind, string and percussion instruments.

He built His EKKLESIA which is synagoge or school of the Bible. We are given a true "sabbath" or Rest.  Just as in the wilderness we REST, Read and Rehearse the Word of God in "holy Convocation."  The Greek PAUO says "Stop the singing, stop the music and stop the PANic."  Outlawing of SELF pleasure says stop anything which "creates mental excitement" because Jesus died to stop "spiritual anxiety created through religious ceremonial."

ALL end time churches focused on music CONFESS to using the curses of the Law of Moses to restore Babylonianism.

David Faust: Using my "desert island" principle, since I read this in my Old Testament, where I would find any evidence in the New Testament that God now frowns upon using musical 'instruments as an aid to worship?

it seems to me that there's a burden of proof on my non-instrumental friends to show where the New Testament plainly disallows something God so plainly and warmly blessed in the past.

Centuries before Jesus the sacrificial system had ended: when Judah went into captivity the symbol of God's presence left the temple and never returned. That is because the Temple was the national shrine of a nation abandoned to worship the starry host.  By the time of Jesus the temple was that of Herod and is not recognized as the third Jewish temple.  The people had only the synagogue as a religious institute and this was "a school of the Bible" and "never had a praise service.

The burden is on David Faust to REinstitute the sacrificial system and then the rationale was only for animal sacrifices in and around Jerusalem.

IF MAKING NOISE IN THE PRESENCE OF A HOLY SPIRIT GOD DOES NOT MOVE YOU BEYOND REDEMPTIONS (as says The Book of Enoch and Mount Sinai) then DELIBERATELY SOWING DISCORD CAUSED GOD TO HATE THE SIN AND THE SINNER.

When you blow 120 shofars all "tuned" to play the same note or ONE SOUND that is not music. When the harpists played we have Messiah in the Dead Sea Scroll version of Psalms 41 saying "The sounded my censure on the Zither."  Musical sounds were always a way to tell God to "Shut your face." And HE DID and "went into exile" and put them out of His PRESENCE for ever.

The sound is bleating, crackling, cry, yell: not music.  This was not PRAISE SINGING as in congregational singing but this is the Warrior's Panic Praise outlawed for the church in the wilderness.

H1984 hâlal haw-lal' A primitive root; to be clear (originally of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show; to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively to celebrate; also to stultify:—(make) boast (self), celebrate, commend, (deal, make), fool (-ish, -ly), glory, give [light], be (make, feign self) mad (against), give in marriage, [sing, be worthy of] praise, rage, renowned, shine.

Now, the musicators are legally bound to do that to instrumental music: Click AGAIN hear the MUSIC in any church moving beyond the Cross.

David Faust missed the point that this was the temple dedication animal sacrifice. This was a NATIONAL (ie pagan-like) temple and ONLY the king, clergy and a few representatives were permitted on the temple grounds.  The Rest were outside the gates where Paul said we have to go if we want to find Jesus.

Now, when the loud noise with 120 shofars all tuned to the same note made a loud frightening noise the temple filled with heaviness so that the PRIESTLY FUNCTIONS were totally disabled. Not to worry, all of the others outside the camp offered their own prayers (thank you very much, mediators) AND God heard from HEAVEN. Did you note that God does not DWELL and did not enter the temple: this was a grand repudiation of the Temple and confirmation of the Tabernacle principle that God moves around with His people.

Maybe God CASTING AS PROFANE the Musical Minstrels out of his "ministry" was missed? There are numerous repudiations of instruments from Matthew to Revelation if you understand WORDS.  However, Paul warned that people cannot read black text on white paper if they are UNconverted.  No convert can deliberately set out to sow discord.

David Faust: 3. Messianic prophecy anticipated that musical praise would continue in the coming kingdom. 
The Jewish people associated singing with expressions of joy and thanksgiving (Psalm 126:1-6). [Creaking, shrill sound, shout,]

Charles Dailey: On the way up you traveled from Galilee with one of the pilgrim bands that made their way to Jerusalem. You did this for fellowship and to protect yourself and your family from bands of robbers that plied their trade along the Jordan River. You sang as you walked. You sang the songs that are labeled in today's Bible the "Songs of Degrees," or the "Songs of the Ascents," because they were probably sung by the Jewish pilgrims since the times of David. These are Psalms 120 through 134.

Psa 126:[1] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Psa 126:[2] Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

Ok: but I wouldn't try this in church when Jesus invites us to REST and "come learn of me."

Rinnah h7440

Definition:

1. ringing cry
   1. of entreaty, supplication
   2. in proclamation, joy, praise

cry 12, singing 9, rejoicing 3, joy 3, gladness 1, proclamation 1, shouting 1, sing 1, songs 1, triumph 1

Psa 126:[3] The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
Psa 126:[4] Turn again our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south.
Psa 126:[5] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Psa 126:[6] He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Bernard Anderson writes:

"Under the assumption that a common pattern of 'myth and ritual' prevailed in the ancient Near East, it has been argued that the enthronement psalms belonged in the cultic setting of a 'throne-ascension festival,' held every New Year, when Yahweh's kingship over Israel, the nations, and the cosmos was celebrated in song, ritual, and pagent (play)."

"In the Babylonian cult, for instance, hymns of praise had an important place. Every New Year, when the cycle of the seasons returned to its beginning, the worshipers reexperienced and reactualized the victory of the powers of life over the powers of death. The creation myth of Enuma elish depicted the victory of the god Marduk over the dragon of Chaos, Tiamet.

Not only was the myth recited, but the battle was reenacted during the festival. At the climax of the celebration worshipers joined in the acclamation, 'Marduk has become king!' This is interpreted to mean that he had reascended his throne for another year." (Anderson, p. 522).

All of the musical guilds had aboriginal or Canaanite names because God had TURNED THEM OVER to this worship because of musical idolatry at Mount Sinai.  God through Samuel warned about the changes the kings would make and HE, God, would not rescue them because the kings would carry out the captivity and death sentence.

"The book of Psalms contain new doctrine after the Law of Moses. And after the writing of Moses, it is the second book of doctrine... (David) first gave to the Hebrews a new style of psalmody, why which he abrogates the ordinances established by Moses with respect to sacrifices,

and introduces the new hymn and a new style of jubilant praise in the worship of God;
and throughout his whole ministry he teaches very many other things that went beyond the law of Moses." (Fragment of Commentary by Hippolytus, bishop of Rome, Ante-Nicene, V, p. 170)

You will remembler that David tried to AWAKEN his lyre so that he could awaken the DAWN (the mother of Lucifer?). Because the CLERGY had been abandoned to the Temple-State where the musicians were under the KING and COMMANDERS OF THE ARMY we should not be disturbed if their RITUALS are just like the nations: including Babylon from whence came Sabbath (worship as opposed to REST) and the Tithe:

"From various psalms we glean fragmentary references to the cultic activities. In an 'entrance liturgy' (Ps. 24) we read about the command of the gates of Jerusalem to lift up their heads so that Yahweh, the King of Glory (presumably enthroned invisibly on the Ark), may come in. We read about festal processions into the sanctuary, led by singers and musicians (Ps. 68:24-25; 118:27), about dancing and making melody to Yahweh (Ps. 149:3), about the blowing of trumpets and the raising of 'the festal shout' (Ps 89:15)," Anderson, Bernhard W., Understanding the Old Testament, 3rd, Prentice-Hall, p. 519).

Comparing Psalm 87 with Psalm 68 we understood that was NOT a messianic prophecy: the damsels who led the musical procession were prostitutes as the PLAYING terms makeperfectly clear.  Like all pagan temples, Jerusalem was "where the action was at" and where all of the customers showed up.  Therefore, everyone knew the eternal battle to put down vile paganism.

1 Kings 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mothers name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
1 Kings 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
1 Kings 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 Kings 15:13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

H4656 miphletseth mif-leh'-tseth From H6426 ; a terror, that is, an idol:--Idol.

Iamblichus: Following every point in its turn, we remark that the planting of "phallic images" is a special representing of the procreative power by conventional symbols, and that we regard this practice as an invocation to the generative energy of the universe. On this account many of these images are consecrated in the spring, when all the world is receiving from the gods the prolific force of the whole creation 

4. The custom here described was universal in ancient times, and it is still found in parts of India. Its remains also exist in architecture and ornamentation. In the worship of the Ashera and Venus of Eryx, and of the Great Mother in Syria and Western Asia, the observances were carried to greater extremes. King Asa of Judea is said to have deposed his mother, Maacha, from royal dignity for her participation -- "because she made a phallos to an Ashera," I Kings XV: XIII. It has been generally believed that the Festivals and Initiatory, or Perfective Rites,

2 Kings 23:4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

H3627 keliy kel-ee' instrument, jewel, that is made of, X one from another, that which pertaineth, pot, + psaltery, sack, stuff, thing, tool, vessel, ware, weapon, 

2 Kings 23:5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

H4208 mazzalah maz-zaw-law' Apparently from H5140 in the sense of raining; a constellation, that is, Zodiaca sign (perhaps as affecting the weather):planet. Compare H4216 .

God promised David a FAMILY or TABERNACLE and David tried to build a HOUSE God could live in. That is why the PLAN was from Hiram the Masonic Archetect and the temple was just like all pagan temples inculding many outright idols. Nevertheless, this was a secular TYPE of what God wanted in the SPIRIT.

In fact, Jerusalem is a "city set on seven hills." It literally means "dueling mountains." God identified it with Hagar, the Law, Egypt and Sodom. Indeed, for much of the time the priesthood was probably Arabic or Kenites AND the instruments came from Egypt when Solomon spent more time on shrines for his idolatrous wives and it is reported that the HARPS came from Egypt. Why not: that was what they prayed for and that was what they God.

ZION, has always had a spiritual meaning but the people thought more of Jerusalem while in captivity than God:

Ps 87:1  His foundation is in the holy mountains.
Ps 87:2  The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Ps 87:3  Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God.

In truth, Zion was where God promised David a tabernacle, but Solomon built a HOUSE in Jerusalem which was on another one of the "seven hills." Nevertheless, people loved Jerusalem (John called it Sodom) more than than God Himself.

If you look at the whole Psalm you will see that this is a mark of God's judgment: the sang God's praise but refused to obey His commandments and therefore went into captivity and death.

In fact the musical processions may have passed through Zion on their way to the temple mount or to Solomon's Music Grove to burn infants to the sound of lound instruments.

HIS foundation is in the holy mountains. Psalm 87:1
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Psalm 87: 2  

Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. Psalm 87: 3

Zion is a spiritual mountain and not JERUSALEM called SODOM:

"You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight," says the Lord. "Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir. Amos 9:7

Amos 9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

Neither Jerusalem nor the Temple had fallen: the Tabernacle on Zion where David placed the Ark of the Covenant as a symbol of the presence of God, His Word and His Grace had been "taken captive" and the LOUD NOISE never called music invited God to REMOVE His presence, Word and Grace from them. The church as the Tabernacle would have simple singers but NO instruments.

"From various psalms we glean fragmentary references to the cultic activities. In an 'entrance liturgy' (Ps. 24) we read about the command of the gates of Jerusalem to lift up their heads so that Yahweh, the King of Glory (presumably enthroned invisibly on the Ark), may come in. We read about festal processions into the sanctuary, led by singers and musicians (Ps. 68:24-25; 118:27), about dancing and making melody to Yahweh (Ps. 149:3), about the blowing of trumpets and the raising of 'the festal shout' (Ps 89:15)," Anderson, Bernhard W., Understanding the Old Testament, 3rd, Prentice-Hall, p. 519).

All of this is the DARK SIDE of national Israel from which the masses were quarantined by attendance in the synagogue as a "school of the Bible."  The Spirit of CHRIST radically repudiated this because it was the result of being "turned over to worship the starry host."

David Faust: There's even a hymn based on verse 3: "Glorious Things of The Are Spoken. " Verses 3. 5. 6. In light of the New Testament, we know this Psalm is talking about the messianic kingdom-the new covenant people. 

Hebrews 12:22 says, "But you have come to Mount Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God' In the Kng James Version, 

Psalm 87:7 predicts that in the messianic kingdom, "the singers as well as the players on instruments shall be there" 

The instrumentalists seem anxious to become dead virgins so they can make SOUNDS LIKE harps in Revelation. However, the message to the LIVING is to "preach the gospel."  You cannot preach the gospel singing and playing for your own pleasure.

How Scripture disproves it:

The Temple was not on Zion but Mount Moriah. The symbol was "God hath provided." The ultimate rejection of Grace was the Israelites thinking THEY had to provide for God.  The earthly Jerusalem is called Sodom by John in Revelation. We are not come to an earthly kingdom:

Heb 12:22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, 
        the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

Because the literal is unfit: And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. Revelation 11:8

Heb 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn,
        which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,
        and to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Heb 12:24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,
        and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel

Hebrews 13 DENIES that we do musical worship on literal Mount Zion

Heb 13:13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,
        bearing his reproach. [seduced nakedness]
Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise [thank offering] to God continually,
         that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

God supplies that AFTER the sorcerers are silenced:

Isa 57:1 THE righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: 
        and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Isa 57:2 He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.

Isa 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Soothsayers: Anan (h6049) aw-nan'; a prim. root; to cover; used only as denom. from 6051, to cloud over; fig. to act covertly, i. e. practise magic: - * bring, enchanter, Meonemin, observe (-r of) times, soothsayer, sorcerer.

Manteuomai (g3132) mant-yoo'-om-ahee; from a der. of 3105 (mean. a prophet, as supposed to rave through inspiration); to divine, i.e. utter spells under pretence of foretelling: - by soothsaying.

Isa 57:4 Against whom do ye SPORT yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth,
        and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

Sport:

Anag (h6026) aw-nag'; a prim. root; to be soft or pliable, i. e. (fig.) effeminate or luxurious: - delicate (-ness), (have) delight (self), sport self.

Isa 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; 
        I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, 
        to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isa 57:16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: 
        for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.

Isa 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, 
        and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.

Prophetic:

Isa 57:18 I have seen his ways, and will heal him: 
        I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.

Isa 57:19 I create the fruit of the lips; 
        Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.

Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice to God continually,
        that is, the fruit of our lips
        giving thanks to his name.

Ecclesiastes 47 notes:
7. For he wiped out his enemies on every side,
........... and annihilated his adversaries the Philistines;
........... he crushed their power even to this day.

8. In all that he did he gave thanks to the Holy One, the Most High, with ascriptions of glory;
........... he sang praise with all his heart, and he loved his Maker.

9. He placed singers before the altar,
........... to make sweet melody with their voices.

Isa 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

Heb 13:10 We have an altar,
.........whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.

Hos 14:1 O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hos 14:2 Take with you words, and         turn to the LORD:         say unto him, Take away all iniquity,         and receive us graciously:         so will we render the calves of our lips.

Turn is converted parallel to baptism Epi-strephô return to the source of Being, earlier, children Call upon the name of the lord Forgive our sins the "New Style Prophesied worship."

Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Heb 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice to God continually,         that is, the fruit of our lips         giving thanks to his name.

Missed the point: SPEAK in the resources is defined as the OPPOSITE of poetry and music.   Certainly, Newton never had contemporary, complex harmony in mind when singing was more like speaking.  You will find Jesus totally repudiating music in all forms and there is no HINT in the New Testament, direct commands or church history to show that ANYONE every thought that this prophesied music in the "ekklesia" when it was always outlawed in the "synagogue" beginning a the church in the wilderness.

Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God!
He, Whose Word cannot be broken,
Formed thee for His own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation’s walls surrounded,
Thou may’st smile at all thy foes.

Haydn orig­in­al­ly adapt­ed “Austria” for a pa­tri­ot­ic song, “Gott, erhalte Franz, den Kaiser,” first per­formed for the em­per­or’s birth­day, February 12, 1797. It is still used as the tune of the Ger­man song Das Deutsch­land­lied. Be­cause of the as­so­ci­a­tions the first stan­za (“Deutsch­land, Deutsch­land über alles…”) de­vel­oped with the Nazis, the third stan­za (“Einig­keit und Recht und Frei­heit/Für das Deutsche Va­ter­land”) is the one now used for the German national anthem. h

THE SINGERS SOWED DISCORD BETWEEN DAVID AND SAUL: 1 Sam 18:6
If we leap to the singing as whirling then here is the meaning:

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs (source of satisfaction) are in thee. Psalm 87: 7

Identical to Psalm 68 it is the damsels or women who paraded around the Temple area where they had no right to be.  It was certain that it created great pleasure for the clergy.

H7891 sheer, shoor The second form being the original form, used in (1 Sam. 18:6); a primitive root (rather identical with H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing:--behold [by mistake for H7789 ], sing (-er, -ing man, -ing woman)
H7788 shoor A primitive root; properly to turn, that is, travel about (as a harlot or a merchant):--go, sing. See also H7891 

When thes musical minstrels (always women) tried to assist Jesus in healing the young girl He CAST them out "like dung." That would have been a wonderful time for him to CONFIRM that music was prophesied.

the command of the gates of Jerusalem to lift up their heads so that Yahweh, the King of Glory (presumably enthroned invisibly on the Ark), may come in. We read about festal processions into the sanctuary, led by singers and musicians (Ps. 68:24-25; 118:27), about dancing and making melody to Yahweh (Ps. 149:3), about the blowing of trumpets and the raising of 'the festal shout' (Ps 89:15)," Anderson, Bernhard W., Understanding the Old Testament, 3rd, Prentice-Hall, p. 519).

We again note that NO singer or musician entered into the Holy Places on the penalty of death. We have noted that they could not COME NEAR them.  Even in the court the "civilians" could not come near the rituals.

Players is the Hebrew: Chalal (h2490) khaw-lal'; a prim. root [comp. 2470]; prop. to bore, i. e. (by impl.) to wound, to dissolve; fig. to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (as if by an "opening wedge"); denom. (from 2485) to play (the flute): - begin (* men began), defile, * break, defile, * eat (as common things), * first, * gather the grape thereof, * take inheritance, pipe, player on instruments, pollute, (cast as) profane (self), prostitute, slay (slain), sorrow, stain, wound.

Chalah (h2470) khaw-law'; a prim. root [comp. 2342, 2470, 2490]; prop. to be rubbed or worn; hence (fig.) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causat.) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat: - beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, * pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (* supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.

Psalm 68 is a parallel which speaks of the prostitute singers (who brought joy) and PLAYERS. The same word for SINGERS is used in both places.  However, there are two words used for the PLAYERS shoing that they mean THE SAME THING

Players in this verse in Hebrew: Nagan (h5059) naw-gan'; a prim. root; prop. to thrum, i. e. beat a tune with the fingers; espec. to play on a stringed instrument; hence (gen.) to make music: - player on instruments, sing to the stringed instruments, melody, ministrel, play (-er, -ing..

Naga (h5060) naw-gah'; a prim. root; prop. to touch, i. e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by impl. to reach (fig. to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.): - beat, (* be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.