34 But Jephthah came to his house at (A)Mizpah, and behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him (B)with tambourines and with dancing. And she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

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34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing(A) to the sound of timbrels!(B) She was an only child.(C) Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Now it happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that (A)the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with other [a]musical instruments.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:6 Possibly three-stringed lutes

When the men were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing,(A) with joyful songs and with timbrels(B) and lyres.

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16 Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites (A)to appoint their relatives as the singers, with musical instruments, harps, lyres, and cymbals, playing to raise sounds of joy.

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16 David(A) told the leaders of the Levites(B) to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians(C) to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.(D)

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25 The (A)singers went on, the musicians after them,
[a]In the midst of the (B)young women beating tambourines.

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  1. Psalm 68:25 Or The maidens in the midst

25 In front are the singers,(A) after them the musicians;(B)
    with them are the young women playing the timbrels.(C)

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Raise a song, strike (A)the tambourine,
The sweet sounding (B)lyre with the (C)harp.

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Begin the music, strike the timbrel,(A)
    play the melodious harp(B) and lyre.(C)

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They shall praise His name with (A)dancing;
They shall sing praises to Him with (B)tambourine and lyre.

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Let them praise his name with dancing(A)
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.(B)

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(A)I will build you again and you will be rebuilt,
Virgin of Israel!
You will [a]take up your (B)tambourines again,
And go out to the dances of the (C)revelers.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:4 Lit adorn yourself with

I will build you up again,
    and you, Virgin(A) Israel, will be rebuilt.(B)
Again you will take up your timbrels(C)
    and go out to dance(D) with the joyful.(E)

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