Psalm 149:3
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3 Let them praise his name with dancing,
making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.(A)
Jeremiah 31:13
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13 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
and the young men and the old shall be merry.[a]
I will turn their mourning into joy;
I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow.(A)
Footnotes
- 31.13 Cn: Heb old together
Psalm 81:2
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2 Raise a song; sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
Exodus 15:20
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The Song of Miriam
20 Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.(A)
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Psalm 150:3-5
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3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!(A)
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!(B)
5 Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!(C)
Psalm 30:11
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11 You have turned my mourning into dancing;
you have taken off my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy,(A)
1 Chronicles 15:28-29
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28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres.(A)
29 As the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing, and she despised him in her heart.(B)
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2 Samuel 6:16
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16 As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal 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.(A)
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2 Samuel 6:14
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14 David danced before the Lord with all his might; David was girded with a linen ephod.(A)
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Judges 11:34
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Jephthah’s Daughter
34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with timbrels and with dancing. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter except her.(A)
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Psalm 137:2-4
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2 On the willows[a] there
we hung up our harps.
3 For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”(A)
4 How could we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?
Footnotes
- 137.2 Or poplars
Psalm 33:2
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2 Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make melody to him with the harp of ten strings.(A)
Ezra 3:10
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10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments were stationed to praise the Lord with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, according to the directions of King David of Israel;(A)
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1 Chronicles 16:42
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42 Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.
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2 Chronicles 29:25
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25 He stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the commandment of David and of Gad the king’s seer and of the prophet Nathan, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.(A)
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1 Chronicles 25:6
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6 They were all under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.(A)
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