Dancing: General Scriptures Concerning

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.” …

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”

So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.

And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD, …

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.

Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.

…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,

Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.

Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

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

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let us feast and celebrate. …