Sound

Examples of how God instructs sound to be used in ministry:

‘Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.’ Leviticus 25:9

‘When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.’ Joshua 6:20

‘As soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the poplar trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.”‘ 2 Samuel 5:24

‘while he and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.’ 2 Samuel 6:15

‘And all the people went up after him, playing pipes and rejoicing greatly, so that the ground shook with the sound.‘ 1 Kings 1:40

‘And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.”‘ 1 Kings 18:41

‘David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.’ 1 Chronicles 15:16

‘The musicians Heman, Asaph and Ethan were to sound the bronze cymbals;’ 1 Chronicles 15:19

‘So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.’ 1 Chronicles 15:28

‘Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals,’ 1 Chronicles 16:5

‘Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.’ 1 Chronicles 16:42

‘and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and kinsmen, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord, saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud’ 2 Chronicles 5:12-13

How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! O LORD, they walk in the light of Your countenance. Psalm 89:15

‘The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”‘ John 3:8

‘Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.’ Acts 2:2

‘But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”‘ Romans 10:18