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.

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

As David was returning after killing Goliath and as the soldiers were coming back home, women from every town in Israel came out to meet King Saul. They were singing joyful songs, dancing, and playing tambourines and lyres.

David, wearing only a linen cloth around his waist, danced with all his might to honor the LORD.

David answered, "I was dancing to honor the LORD, who chose me instead of your father and his family to make me the leader of his people Israel. And I will go on dancing to honor the LORD,

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.

He sets the time for sorrow and the time for joy, the time for mourning and the time for dancing,

Then the young women will dance and be happy, and men, young and old, will rejoice. I will comfort them and turn their mourning into joy, their sorrow into gladness.

Watch out, for there will be those who will arrest you and take you to court, and they will whip you in the synagogues.

But first he must suffer much and be rejected by the people of this day.