The prophet Miriam, Aaron's sister, took her tambourine, and all the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.

When Jephthah went back home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him, dancing and playing the tambourine. She was his only child.

and watch. When the young women of Shiloh come out to dance during the festival, you come out of the vineyards. Each of you take a wife by force from among them and take her back to the territory of Benjamin with you.

You have changed my sadness into a joyful dance; you have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy.

Praise his name with dancing; play drums and harps in praise of him.

Praise him with drums and dancing. Praise him with harps and flutes.

"In the meantime the older son was out in the field. On his way back, when he came close to the house, he heard the music and dancing.

Love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

Work hard at whatever you do, because there will be no action, no thought, no knowledge, no wisdom in the world of the dead---and that is where you are going.

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as though you were working for the Lord and not for people.

In the meantime the boy Samuel continued to serve the LORD, wearing a sacred linen apron.

From all the tribes of Israel I chose his family to be my priests, to serve at the altar, to burn the incense, and to wear the ephod to consult me. And I gave them the right to keep a share of the sacrifices burned on the altar.

So Saul said to Doeg, "You kill them!"---and Doeg killed them all. On that day he killed eighty-five priests who were qualified to carry the ephod.

David was wearing a robe made of the finest linen, and so were the musicians, Chenaniah their leader, and the Levites who carried the Box. David also wore a linen ephod.