Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.
Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword.
Jacob answered 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 ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dancing.
whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!
So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him, but because he was too afraid of his family and the townspeople to do it by day, he did it by night.