Psalms 33:2
Ver. 2. Praise the Lord with harp,.... An instrument David was well skilled in the use of, the inventor of which was Jubal, Ge 4:21;
sing unto, him with the psaltery; the name of this instrument is in the Hebrew language "nebel": the account which Josephus {w} gives of this, and of the former, is,
"the harp is extended with ten strings, and is plucked with a quill; the "nabla", or psaltery, has twelve sounds, and is played upon with the fingers;''
some make this and the next to be the same:
[and] an instrument of ten strings; and read them together thus, "with the psaltery of ten strings": and so the Targum, Septuagint, and other versions {x}: but it seems from Josephus that it was not a stringed instrument, but had holes, and those twelve; and besides it is distinguished from the instrument of ten strings, Ps 92:3; it was in the form of a bottle, from whence it had its name.
{w} Antiqu. l. 7. c. 12. s. 3. {x} Vid. Jarchium in loc. & R. Mosem in Aben Ezra in loc.