Why didst thou flee away covertly, and steal away from me, and didst not tell me, that I might have conducted thee with mirth and with songs, with tambour and with harp;

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.

Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.

Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

Let them praise his name in the dance; let them sing psalms unto him with the tambour and harp.

Praise him with the tambour and dance; praise him with stringed instruments and the pipe;

And wherever shall pass the appointed staff, which Jehovah shall lay upon him, it shall be with tambours and harps; and with tumultuous battles will he fight with it.