Psalm 149:3

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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 timbrel and dancing;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and pipe.

When Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah, behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together,
For I will turn their mourning into joy
And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

With the timbrel

Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.

Raise a song, strike the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Upon the

willows in the midst of it

We hung our harps.

Praise Him with trumpet sound;
Praise Him with harp and lyre.

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres.

And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.

All these were under the direction of their father to sing in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, harps and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the direction of the king.

He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord

according to the directions of King David of Israel.

General references

Raise a song, strike the timbrel,
The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.