1 Samuel 18:6

The English Standar Version

As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.[1]

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:20

Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

2 Samuel 6:5

And David and all the house of Israel were making merry before the LORD, with songs[3] and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

Psalm 68:11

The Lord gives the word; the women who announce the news are a great host:

Psalm 68:25

the singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:

Exodus 15:20

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.

Exodus 15:21

And Miriam sang to them: "Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea."

Isaiah 30:32

And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.

Judges 11:34

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; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

1 Samuel 18:5

And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul's servants.