1 Samuel 16:23
And whenever the spirit from God came upon Saul, David would pick up his harp and play. Then Saul would find relief and feel better, and the spirit of distress would depart from him.
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One song meets this passage
“That David played, and it pleased the Lord”
Hallelujah · Leonard Cohen
resonates with 1 Samuel 16:23
Invokes David's music as an act that reached toward God even amid turmoil, setting up the song's tangled view of worship.
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