When they came near the camp, Moses saw the calf and the dancing, and he burned with anger. He threw the stone tablets to the ground, smashing them at the foot of the mountain.

When Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, his daughter came out to meet him, playing on a tambourine and dancing for joy. She was his one and only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

So he led David to them, and they found the Amalekites spread out across the fields, eating and drinking and dancing with joy because of the vast amount of plunder they had taken from the Philistines and the land of Judah.

Michal’s Contempt for David

But as the Ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looked down from her window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she was filled with contempt for him.

David retorted to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord, who chose me above your father and all his family! He appointed me as the leader of Israel, the people of the Lord, so I celebrate before the Lord.

You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,

Praise his name with dancing, accompanied by tambourine and harp.

Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flutes!

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

“Meanwhile, the older son was in the fields working. When he returned home, he heard music and dancing in the house,