Bible Verses About Dancing
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for dancing, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,904 votes, led by Psalms 149:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Dancing
Psalms 149:3350 votes
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Ecclesiastes 3:4302 votes
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Psalms 30:11214 votes
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
Exodus 15:20203 votes
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.
Psalms 150:4148 votes
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Jeremiah 31:13145 votes
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Luke 15:25142 votes
Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
Judges 11:34100 votes
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Jeremiah 31:489 votes
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Exodus 32:1986 votes
And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
1 Samuel 30:1683 votes
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Psalms 150:1-676 votes
Praise ye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
Job 21:1169 votes
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Psalms 68:2566 votes
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
1 Samuel 21:1163 votes
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?
Exodus 32:660 votes
And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Lamentations 5:1560 votes
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Exodus 15:20-2158 votes
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.
Acts 3:852 votes
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
2 Samuel 6:14-1636 votes
And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 22:1-5124 votes
And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
Mark 6:14-2921 votes
And king Herod heard of him; (for his name was spread abroad:) and he said, That John the Baptist was risen from the dead, and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves in him.
Mark 7:22-2321 votes
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
1 Samuel 18:6-20:718 votes
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.
Nehemiah 8:1-1818 votes
And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded to Israel.
What does the Bible say about dancing?
Readers most often cite Psalms 149:3 on the subject of dancing. Across 2,904 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ecclesiastes 3:4, Psalms 30:11, Exodus 15:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.