Psalm 149:3

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

Exodus 15:20

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

Psalm 81:2

Lift up a song—play the tambourine,
the melodious lyre, and the harp.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then the young woman will rejoice with dancing,
while young and old men rejoice together.
I will turn their mourning into joy,
give them consolation,
and bring happiness out of grief.

Judges 11:34

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

2 Samuel 6:14

David was dancing with all his might before the Lord wearing a linen ephod.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

1 Chronicles 15:28-29

So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.

1 Chronicles 16:42

Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God. Jeduthun’s sons were at the gate.

All these men were under their own fathers’ authority for the music in the Lord’s temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king’s authority.

2 Chronicles 29:25

Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

Ezra 3:10

When the builders had laid the foundation of the Lord’s temple, the priests, dressed in their robes and holding trumpets, and the Levites descended from Asaph, holding cymbals, took their positions to praise the Lord, as King David of Israel had instructed.

Psalm 30:11

You turned my lament into dancing;
You removed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,

Psalm 33:2

Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make music to Him with a ten-stringed harp.

Psalm 137:2-4

There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,

Psalm 150:3-5

Praise Him with trumpet blast;
praise Him with harp and lyre.

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Summary

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

In the dance

With the timbrel

General references

Psalm 81:2

Bible References

In the dance

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

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

As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

Then the young woman will rejoice with dancing,
while young and old men rejoice together.
I will turn their mourning into joy,
give them consolation,
and bring happiness out of grief.

With the timbrel

Praise the Lord with the lyre;
make music to Him with a ten-stringed harp.

Lift up a song—play the tambourine,
the melodious lyre, and the harp.

There we hung up our lyres
on the poplar trees,

Praise Him with trumpet blast;
praise Him with harp and lyre.

So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.

Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God. Jeduthun’s sons were at the gate.

General references

Lift up a song—play the tambourine,
the melodious lyre, and the harp.