Bible Verses about “dancing”
The Bible contains 21 verses about dancing 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.”
“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."”
“They rose up early on the next day, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.”
“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 soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.”
“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.”
“The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"”
“The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,”
“The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.”