What are some Bible verses about dancing?

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Psalm 149:3  

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!  
  

Ecclesiastes 3:4  

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

Jeremiah 31:13  

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.  
  

Psalm 30:11  

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,  
  

Psalm 150:4  

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

Exodus 32:19  

And as soon as he came near the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain.  
  

Exodus 15:20  

Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.  
  

Luke 15:25  

Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.  
  

Matthew 11:16\-17  

But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’"  
  

Jeremiah 31:13\-14  

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.  
  

Jeremiah 31:4  

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.  
  

Job 21:11  

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

Judges 11:34  

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.  
  

2 Samuel 6:14\-16  

And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn. As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.  
  

1 Samuel 30:16  

And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.  
  

Acts 14:10  

Said in a loud voice, “Stand upright on your feet.” And he sprang up and began walking.  
  

Luke 15:23\-25  

And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate. For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to celebrate. Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.  
  

Mark 6:22  

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.”  
  

Lamentations 5:15  

The joy of our hearts has ceased; our dancing has been turned to mourning.  
  

Acts 3:8  

And leaping up he stood and began to walk, and entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.  
  

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