Bible Verses about “dance”
The Bible contains 20 verses about dance across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;”
“Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!”
“Let everything that has breath praise Yah! Praise Yah!”
“Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!”
“Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!”
“Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!”
“Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!”
“Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!”
“"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.”
“Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.”
“David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.”
“Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.”
“You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,”
“Miriam answered them, "Sing to Yahweh, for he has triumphed gloriously. The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."”
“It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.”
“Again will I build you, and you shall be built, O virgin of Israel: again you shall be adorned with your tambourines, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.”
“Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.”
“It happened, as the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.”
“When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread around over all the ground, eating, drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.”
“They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.”