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

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It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that (A)the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with [a]musical instruments.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 18:6 I.e. triangles; or three-stringed instruments

16 Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites (A)to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

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25 The (A)singers went on, the musicians after them,
[a]In the midst of the (B)maidens beating tambourines.

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  1. Psalm 68:25 Or The maidens in the midst

Raise a song, strike (A)the timbrel,
The sweet sounding (B)lyre with the (C)harp.

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Let them praise His name with (A)dancing;
Let them sing praises to Him with (B)timbrel and lyre.

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(A)Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt,
O virgin of Israel!
Again you will [a]take up your (B)tambourines,
And go forth to the dances of the (C)merrymakers.

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  1. Jeremiah 31:4 Or be adorned with