Psalms 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
BSB
ASV
Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
KJV
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 150:3-5 (253)
The timbrel represents the death of fleshly desire because of honesty itself. Dancing is the agreement of reasonable spirits all saying the same thing and in which there are no divisions. The stringed instruments suggest the unison of the voices of moral excellence and the unity of the organ which is the church of God resting on reflective and active minds.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Associated with the deliverance at the Red Sea, this form of worship set forth the most jubilant and exultant of worship. The hands and the feet were both employed, and the entire body moved in sympathy with the members. Are there not periods of life when we feel so glad that we would fain dance for joy? Let not such exhilaration be spent upon common themes, but let the name of God stir us to ecstasy.
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Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
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The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.
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As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and…
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
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Psalms 149:3Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
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Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
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Job 30:31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
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Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
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Psalms 144:9I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
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Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.