Why did you flee secretly and trick me, and did not tell me, so that I might have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
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.
So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
Jacob answered and said to Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I thought that you would take your daughters from me by force.
His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
And Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done, that you have tricked me and driven away my daughters like captives of the sword?
They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts, but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord, or see the work of his hands.