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Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
1Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise in the assembly of the saints.
2Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
4For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
5Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
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Dance, tambourine, and harp make praise sound full of movement and music, challenging the thought that reverence must always be quiet or still.
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Psalm 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,Dancing expresses gladness in both passages, with Psalm 30 naming God as the one who turned mourning into dancing.
Psalm 150:4Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!Both verses name tambourine and dancing as ways to praise God, joining movement with the sound of instruments.
Exodus 15:20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.Miriam and the women take up tambourines and dances, the same pairing Psalm 149 includes in praise.
Jeremiah 31:13Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them …Both passages picture dancing among God's people as an expression of joy.
Psalm 150:3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!The harp appears in both verses as an instrument used to praise God.
2 Samuel 6:14David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.David's dancing before the LORD shows the bodily expression of worship that Psalm 149 urges.
2 Samuel 6:16As the LORD’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and …Both passages feature dancing directed toward the LORD, though the account of David also records Michal's contempt.
1 Chronicles 15:28–29Thus all Israel brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with …Harps accompany Israel's ark procession, sharing the psalm's use of instruments in the gathered life of God's people.
Psalm 81:2Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.Both verses join singing with tambourine and harp, giving praise a shared musical expression.
Judges 11:34Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child. Besides her he …Tambourines and dances appear in both scenes, though Jephthah's daughter comes to greet her father rather than being described praising God.
1 Chronicles 16:42and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of …Both passages connect musical instruments with songs directed to God, though they name different instruments.
Ezra 3:10When the builders laid the foundation of the LORD’s temple, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with …Both passages describe praise to the LORD accompanied by instruments, with Ezra placing it at the temple's foundation.
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Your voice and body have a place in praise. Here, God's people honor their King with dancing and music, and his name remains the center.
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