Now it had happened as they were coming home, when David was returning from the slaughter of the [a]Philistine, that (A)the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:6 Philistines

Jephthah’s Daughter

34 When Jephthah came to his house at (A)Mizpah, there was (B)his daughter, coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing; and she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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The Song of Miriam(A)

20 Then Miriam (B)the prophetess, (C)the sister of Aaron, (D)took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her (E)with timbrels and with dances.

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25 (A)The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after;
Among them were the maidens playing timbrels.

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11 For (A)the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
And ransomed him (B)from the hand of one stronger than he.
12 Therefore they shall come and sing in (C)the height of Zion,
Streaming to (D)the goodness of the Lord
For wheat and new wine and oil,
For the young of the flock and the herd;
Their souls shall be like a (E)well-watered garden,
(F)And they shall sorrow no more at all.

13 “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together;
For I will turn their mourning to joy,
Will comfort them,
And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.

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