Dancing

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Bible verses about “Dancing”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 15:20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
• Exodus 32:19And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
• Judges 11:34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
• Judges 21:19Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Beth–el, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Beth–el to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
• Judges 21:20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;
• Judges 21:21And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
• 1 Samuel 18:6And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
• 1 Samuel 21:11And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
• 1 Samuel 30:16And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
• 2 Samuel 6:14And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
• 2 Samuel 6:15So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
• 2 Samuel 6:16And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.
• Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
• Psalms 30:11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
• Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
• Psalms 150:4Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
• Ecclesiastes 3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
• Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
• Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
• Lamentations 5:15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
• Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
• Luke 15:23And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
• Luke 15:24For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
• Luke 15:25Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
• Matthew 14:6But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
• Mark 6:22And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.
• Exodus 32:25And when Moses saw that the people were naked; (for Aaron had made them naked unto their shame among their enemies:)