Wherefore didst thou flee secretly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp;

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.

Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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

Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.

And every stroke of the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, shall be with the sound of tabrets and harps; and in battles with the brandishing of his arm will he fight with them.