Exodus 15:20

“Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me—so that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre—

And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

Then Jephthah came to his house at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter was coming out to meet him with tambourines and with dancing. Now she was his one and only child; besides her he had no son or daughter.

and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards, and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh and go to the land of Benjamin.

And it happened as they were coming, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with gladness, and with musical instruments.

“Tell it not in Gath, Proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, Lest the daughters of the Philistines be glad, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

And David was dancing before Yahweh with all his strength, and David was girded with a linen ephod.

The Lord gives the word; The women who proclaim the good news are a great host:

The singers went on, the musicians after them, In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.

Lift up a song of praise, strike the tambourine, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Then they believed His words; They sang His praise.

Let them praise His name with dancing; With tambourine and lyre let them sing praises to Him.

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

“Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt And ransomed you from the house of slavery, And I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

And they *sang the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations!