20 Bible Verses about Amusements

Also in laughter the heart shall have pain, and its latter state of joy, grief.

And his sons went and made a drinking in the house, a man his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

A man of poverty loving joy: he loving wine and oil shall not be rich.

And they will rise early early on the morrow, and they will raise up a burnt-offering, and they will bring near peace; and the people will sit down to eat and drink, and they will rise up to play.

And it will be when their heart will be joyful, and they will say, Call to Samson, and he shall play to us. And they will call to Samson from the house of bonds and he will play before them, and they will set him between the pillars.

And Abner will say to Joab, Now shall the boys arise and play before us. And Joab will say, They shall arise.

They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap. They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe.

I Said in my heart, Go now, I will prove thee with gladness, and look thou upon good: and behold, this also vanity. To laughter I said, It is mad: and to gladness, What did this?

And there was the harp and the lyre, the drum and the pipe, and the wine of their drinking's: but the work of Jehovah they will not look at, and the work of his hands they saw not

Prating upon the mouth of the lyre, as David they invented to them instruments of music;

And the broad places of the city shall be filled with boys and girls playing in her broad places.

And he will say, Not the voice of the shouting of victory, and not the voice of the shouting of defeat: the voice of shouting I heard. And it will be when he drew near to the camp, and he will see the calf and the lute: and the wrath of Moses will kindle, and he will cast the tables out of his hand, and he will break them under the mount

And Moses will see the people that it was uncovered (for Aaron uncovered it for overthrow among their enemies).

And it will be in their coming, in David's turning back from the striking of the rover, and the women will come forth from all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing to meet Saul the king, with drums and with gladness and with triangles: And the women will answer, playing, and they will say, Saul smote with his thousand and David with his ten thousands.

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

And a convenient day having come, when Herod in the festivities of his birthday made a supper to his leading persons,, and to the captains of thousands, and to the first of Galilee;

They are like children sitting in the market-place, and calling to one another, and saying, We played the flute to you, and ye danced not; we lamented to you, and ye wept not.

(And all the Athenians and strangers being present, passed time in nothing else but to say or hear some thing new.)