What the Bible says about
Dancing
21 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools
“Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.”— Exodus 15:20 BSB
“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.”— Exodus 32:19 BSB
“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.”— Judges 11:34 BSB
““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.””— Judges 21:19-21 BSB
“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.”— 1 Samuel 18:6 BSB
“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’?””— 1 Samuel 21:11 BSB
“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.”— 1 Samuel 30:16 BSB
“And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,”— 2 Samuel 6:14-16 BSB