20 Then (A)Miriam (B)the prophetess, the (C)sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and (D)all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.

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Praise him with (A)tambourine and (B)dance;
    praise him with (C)strings and (D)pipe!

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Saul's Jealousy of David

As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, (A)the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:6 Or triangles, or three-stringed instruments

25 (A)the singers in front, (B)the musicians last,
    between them (C)virgins playing tambourines:

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34 Then Jephthah came to his home at (A)Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him (B)with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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59 The name of Amram's wife was (A)Jochebed the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.

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For (A)I brought you up from the land of Egypt
    and (B)redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
    Aaron, and (C)Miriam.

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Let them praise his name with (A)dancing,
    making melody to him with (B)tambourine and (C)lyre!

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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

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36 And there was (A)a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin,

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14 So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asaiah went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of (A)Tikvah, son of (B)Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in (C)the Second Quarter), and they talked with her.

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And (A)his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

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He had four unmarried daughters, (A)who prophesied.

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Raise a song; sound (A)the tambourine,
    (B)the sweet lyre with (C)the harp.

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11 The Lord gives (A)the word;
    (B)the women who announce the news are a great host:

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11 You have turned for me my mourning into (A)dancing;
    you have loosed my sackcloth
    and clothed me with gladness,

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14 And David (A)danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was (B)wearing a linen ephod.

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After that you shall come to (A)Gibeath-elohim,[a] (B)where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down (C)from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:5 Gibeath-elohim means the hill of God

21 and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to (A)dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

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The Death of Miriam

20 And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came (A)into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And (B)Miriam died there and was buried there.

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but every wife[a] who prays or (A)prophesies (B)with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same (C)as if her head were shaven.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 11:5 In verses 5–13, the Greek word gunē is translated wife in verses that deal with wearing a veil, a sign of being married in first-century culture

David and Michal

16 As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

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Uzzah and the Ark

And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord, with (A)songs[a] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:5 Septuagint, 1 Chronicles 13:8; Hebrew fir trees

Miriam and Aaron Oppose Moses

12 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.

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34 (A)the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but (B)should be in submission, as (C)the Law also says.

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