Exodus 15:20

New Century Version

Then Aaron’s sister Miriam, a prophetess, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women followed her, playing tambourines and dancing.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn’t you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.

2 Samuel 1:20

Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t announce it in the streets of Ashkelon. If you do, the Philistine women will be happy. The daughters of the Philistines will rejoice.

2 Samuel 6:14

Then David danced with all his might before the Lord. He had on a holy linen vest.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the Ark of the Lord came into the city, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw David jumping and dancing in the presence of the Lord, she hated him.

2 Samuel 6:5

David and all the Israelites were celebrating in the presence of the Lord. They were playing wooden instruments: lyres, harps, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.

2 Kings 22:14

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Acbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to talk to Huldah the prophetess. She was the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, who took care of the king’s clothes. Huldah lived in Jerusalem, in the new area of the city.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to play their lyres, harps, and cymbals and to sing happy songs.

1 Chronicles 6:3

Amram’s children were Aaron, Moses, and Miriam. Aaron’s sons were Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Nehemiah 6:14

I prayed, “My God, remember Tobiah and Sanballat and what they have done. Also remember the prophetess Noadiah and the other prophets who have been trying to frighten me.”

Psalm 149:3

They should praise him with dancing. They should sing praises to him with tambourines and harps.

Psalm 150:4

Praise him with tambourines and dancing; praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.

Psalm 30:11

You changed my sorrow into dancing. You took away my clothes of sadness, and clothed me in happiness.

Psalm 68:11

The Lord gave the command, and a great army told the news:

Psalm 68:25

The singers are in front and the instruments are behind. In the middle are the girls with the tambourines.

Psalm 68:26

Praise God in the meeting place; praise the Lord in the gathering of Israel.

Psalm 81:2

Begin the music. Play the tambourines. Play pleasant music on the harps and lyres.

Exodus 2:4

The baby’s sister stood a short distance away to see what would happen to him.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

There is a time to cry and a time to laugh. There is a time to be sad and a time to dance.

Jeremiah 31:4

People of Israel, I will build you up again, and you will be rebuilt. You will pick up your tambourines again and dance with those who are joyful.

Micah 6:4

I brought you from the land of Egypt and freed you from slavery; I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam to you.

Numbers 12:1

Miriam and Aaron began to talk against Moses because of his Cushite wife (he had married a Cushite).

Numbers 12:2

They said, “Is Moses the only one the Lord speaks through? Doesn’t he also speak through us?” And the Lord heard this.

Numbers 20:1

In the first month all the people of Israel arrived at the Desert of Zin, and they stayed at Kadesh. There Miriam died and was buried.

Numbers 26:59

whose wife was named Jochebed. She was from the tribe of Levi and she was born in Egypt. She and Amram had two sons, Aaron and Moses, and their sister Miriam.

Luke 2:36

There was a prophetess, Anna, from the family of Phanuel in the tribe of Asher. Anna was very old. She had once been married for seven years.

Acts 21:9

He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophesying.

1 Corinthians 11:5

But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered brings shame to her head. She is the same as a woman who has her head shaved.

1 Corinthians 14:34

women should keep quiet in the church meetings. They are not allowed to speak, but they must yield to this rule as the law says.

Judges 11:34

When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, his daughter was the first one to come out to meet him, playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.

Judges 21:21

Watch for the young women from Shiloh to come out to join the dancing. Then run out from the vineyards and take one of the young Shiloh women and return to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 4:4

A prophetess named Deborah, the wife of Lappidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

1 Samuel 10:5

Then you will go to Gibeah of God, where a Philistine camp is. When you approach this town, a group of prophets will come down from the place of worship. They will be playing harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

1 Samuel 18:6

After David had killed the Philistine, he and the men returned home. Women came out from all the towns of Israel to meet King Saul. They sang songs of joy, danced, and played tambourines and stringed instruments.