'Dancing' in the Bible

When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

The Benjaminites did as instructed. They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. They went home to their own territory, rebuilt their cities, and settled down.

When the men arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments.

Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord.

As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him.

Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.

Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!

Our hearts no longer have any joy; our dancing is turned to mourning.