DANCING

Passages on this topic · 27

• Exodus 15:20

  Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

• Exodus 32:19

  As soon as he came near to the camp, he saw the calf and the dancing. Then Moses’ anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.

• Exodus 32:25

  When Moses saw that the people had broken loose, (for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies),

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

• Judges 21:19

  They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”

• Judges 21:20

  They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, “Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,

• Judges 21:21

  and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

• 1 Samuel 18:6

  As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

• 1 Samuel 21:11

  The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?’”

• 1 Samuel 30:16

  When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great plunder that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

• 2 Samuel 6:14

  David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

• 2 Samuel 6:15

  So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

• Job 21:11

  They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

• Psalms 30:11

  You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

• Psalms 149:3

  Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

• Psalms 150:4

  Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments 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

  I will build you again, and you will be built, O virgin of Israel. You will again be adorned with your tambourines, and will go out in the dances of those who make merry.

• Jeremiah 31:13

  Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

• Lamentations 5:15

  The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

• Matthew 11:17

  and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned for you, and you didn’t lament.’

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

• Mark 6:22

  When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, “Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you.”

• Luke 15:23

  Bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat, and celebrate;

• Luke 15:24

  for this, my son, was dead, and is alive again. He was lost, and is found.’ They began to celebrate.

• Luke 15:25

  “Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.