2Sa_6:15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
Ver. 15. With shouting.] And singing of psalms, {1Ch_16:8} which although they did with all their might, yet no man was wearied out, as Josephus {a} here noteth; much less exanimated and killed outright with vehemency of singing, as Paulus Diaconus {b} saith that eighty men were at Rome, by singing Gregory the Great’s litanies, in the time when a great plague raged there.