Dancing: General Scriptures Concerning
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Exodus 32:19
As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
Judges 11:34
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
Judges 21:19–21
“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.” / So they commanded the Benjamites: “Go, hide in the vineyards / and watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
1 Samuel 21:11
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
1 Samuel 30:16
So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
2 Samuel 6:14–16
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD, / while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram’s horn. / As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Psalm 30:11
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
Psalm 149:3
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Jeremiah 31:4, 13
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing. / Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
Lamentations 5:15
Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Matthew 11:17
‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’
Luke 15:23–25
Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate. / For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!’ So they began to celebrate. / Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.