Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.

And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.

They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.

In his neck abides strength, and terror dances before him.

Singers and dancers alike say, “All my springs are in you.”

Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

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

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Return, return, O Shulammite, return, return, that we may look upon you.

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Why should you look upon the Shulammite, as upon a dance before two armies?

But wild animals will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there ostriches will dwell, and there wild goats will dance.

Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old shall be merry. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

“‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,

For when Herodias's daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not weep.’