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Psalm 150:4
Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
2Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
4Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
5Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!
6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Praise the LORD!
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Tambourine, dancing, strings, and flute make praise audible and physical, widening the picture of what it can look like to honor God.
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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 use the same combination of tambourines and dancing that Psalm 150 names in its command to praise.
Psalm 30:11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,Dancing appears in both psalms, as God's gift after mourning in Psalm 30 and as an expression of praise in Psalm 150.
Psalm 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!Both passages direct praise to God through dance, tambourine, and stringed instruments.
Isaiah 38:20The LORD will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the LORD’s house.Both passages name stringed instruments in worship directed toward the LORD.
2 Samuel 6:14David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.David dances before the LORD with all his might, sharing the bodily expression that Psalm 150 includes in praise.
Psalm 144:9I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.The ten-stringed lyre in Psalm 144 is a specific instrument used for the stringed praise commanded in Psalm 150.
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 …Jephthah's daughter comes with tambourines and dances; the shared detail is their use, since Judges does not name praise to God here.
Judges 21:21and see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards, and each man catch his wife of the daughters …Dancing is the limited shared detail; Judges describes a plan to seize women during a dance, while the psalm commands praise.
Psalm 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.The lute, harp, and lyre named in Psalm 92 share the stringed music included in Psalm 150.
Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.Both texts name stringed and wind instruments, though Job's harp and pipe express mourning where Psalm 150 directs music toward praise.
Luke 15:25“Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.Music and dancing occur in both passages, though Luke's verse describes what the elder son hears without naming worship.
1 Chronicles 15:29As the ark of the LORD’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she …David's dancing and playing share the physical, musical expression named in Psalm 150, while Chronicles also records Michal's contempt.
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The repeated words “Praise him” give every sound and movement its direction. With all this variety, God remains the one worthy of praise.
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