Luke 15:25

A Conservative Version

But his elder son was in a field. And while coming, having approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

Cross References

Psalm 150:4

Praise him with timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.

Luke 7:32

They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to each other, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance. We mourned to you, and ye did not weep.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again I will build thee, and thou shall be built, O virgin of Israel. Again thou shall be adorned with thy tambourine, and shall go forth in the dances of those who make merry.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

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

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises to him with timbrel and harp.

Psalm 126:1

When LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

2 Samuel 6:14

And David danced before LORD with all his might. And David was girded with a linen ephod.

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

Psalm 30:11

Thou have turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou have loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness,

Luke 15:24

because this my son was dead, and became alive again. And he was lost, and is found. And they began to be cheerful.

Luke 15:26

And having summoned one of the boys, and inquired what these things might be.