14 Bible Verses about Dancing

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Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance:

Psalm 30:11

Thou didst turn my wailing to dancing to me: thou didst loose my sackcloth, and thou wilt gird me with gladness;

Jeremiah 31:13

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old men together: and I turned their mourning to joy, and I comforted them and caused them to rejoice from their sorrow.

2 Samuel 6:14

And David leaping with all strength before Jehovah: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Psalm 150:1-6

Praise ye Jah. Praise ye God in his holy place: praise him in the firmament of his power. Praise ye him in his powers: praise him according to the multitude of his greatness. Praise ye him with the clangor of the trumpet: praise him with the lyre and the harp.read more.
Praise him with the drum and the dance: praise ye him with strings and the pipe. Praise ye him with ringing instruments of hearing: praise him with ringing instruments of loud noise. All breath shall praise Jah. Praise ye Jah.

Jeremiah 31:4

I will yet build thee, and thou wert built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt yet be adorned with the tabret, and thou wentest forth into the dance of those playing.

Job 21:11

They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.

Judges 11:34

And Jephthah will come to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter will come forth to his meeting with drums and with lutes: and she the only begotten; not to him beside her, son nor daughter.

Exodus 15:20-21

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, will take the drum in her hand; and all the women will go forth after her, with drums and with lutes. And Miriam will sing to them, Sing ye to Jehovah; for being lifted up, he was lifted up: the horse and his horseman he threw into the sea.

Psalm 100:1-5

Chanting for praise. Shout ye to Jehovah, all the earth. Serve ye Jehovah with gladness: come before him with rejoicing. Know ye that Jehovah he is God: he made us and not we his people and the sheep of his feeding.read more.
Come ye into his gates with confession, his enclosures with praise: confess ye to him, praise his name. For Jehovah is good; his mercy forever and his faithfulness to generation and generation.

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, will take the drum in her hand; and all the women will go forth after her, with drums and with lutes.

1 Chronicles 15:29

And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah will be coming even to the city of David, and Michel daughter of Saul, looking forth from a window, and she will see king David leaping and playing: and she will despise him in her heart.

From Thematic Bible


Dancing » Worldly

Job 21:11

They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.

1 Samuel 30:16

And he will bring him down, and behold them spread out upon the face of all the earth, eating and drinking and keeping a festival, for all the great spoil which they took from the land of the rovers, and from the land of Judah.

Judges 11:34

And Jephthah will come to Mizpeh to his house, and behold, his daughter will come forth to his meeting with drums and with lutes: and she the only begotten; not to him beside her, son nor daughter.

Judges 21:21

And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh shall come forth to dance in dances, and come ye out from the vineyards and catch for yourselves each his wife from the daughters of Shiloh) and go to the land of Benjamin.

Dancing » Before the lord

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, will take the drum in her hand; and all the women will go forth after her, with drums and with lutes.

2 Samuel 6:14

And David leaping with all strength before Jehovah: and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Dancing » Herodias dances in the presence of herod (antipas)

Matthew 14:6

The festivities of Herod's birthday being celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and pleased Herod.

Mark 6:22

And the daughter of this Herodias, having come in, and danced, and pleased Herod and those reclining together at table, the king said to the little girl, Ask me whatever thou wishest, and I will give thee.

Dancing » Idolatrous

Exodus 32:25

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

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