And David danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was wearing a linen ephod.
Samuel was ministering before the Lord, a boy clothed with a linen ephod.
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.
Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
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.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.
“Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as also were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the music of the singers. And David wore a linen ephod.
Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.
and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
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