From Nave’s Topical Bible
Dancing
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 21Passages listed
- 12Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- General scriptures concerningExodus 15:20Exodus 32:19Judges 11:34Judges 21:19–211 Samuel 18:61 Samuel 21:111 Samuel 30:162 Samuel 6:14–16Job 21:11Psalms 30:11Psalms 149:3Psalms 150:4Ecclesiastes 3:4Jeremiah 31:4Jeremiah 31:13Lamentations 5:15Matthew 11:17Luke 15:23–25
- Herodias dances in the presence of Herod (Antipas)Matthew 14:6Mark 6:22
- IdolatrousExodus 32:19Exodus 32:25
The passages, in Bible order (21)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Commentary on Exodus 15:201 voice
And Miriam taking the timbrel led the dances with maidenly modesty. But consider whom she was then prefiguring. Was she not a type of the church, who as a virgin with unstained spirit joins together the religious gatherings of the people to sing divine songs?
Ambrose of Milan· Concerning Virginity 1.3.12, 397Patristic
- Exodus 32:19
As Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, he burned with anger and threw the tablets out of his hands, shattering them at the base of the mountain.
Commentary on Exodus 32:191 voice
And it came to pass, as soon, as he came nigh unto the camp,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.
Commentary on Exodus 32:252 voices
And when Moses saw that the people were naked,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Moses saw that the people were naked - They were stripped, says the Targum, of the holy crown that was upon their heads, on which the great and precious name Jehovah was engraved. But it is more likely that the word פרע parua implies that they were reduced to the most helpless and wretched state, being abandoned by God in the midst of their enemies. This is exactly similar to that expression, 2Ch 28:19: For the Lord brought Judah low, because of Ahaz king of Israel: for he made Judah Naked, הפריע hiphria, and transgressed sore against the Lord.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Judges 11:34
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
Commentary on Judges 11:341 voice
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Judges 21:19–21
“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
Commentary on Judges 21:19–212 voices
Then they said,.... Some of the elders that sat in council debating this matter, and considering of ways and means to assist their brethren the Benjaminites, and preserve their tribe from being lost: behold, there is a feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly; where the tabernacle then was, and before which the males of Israel were obliged to appear three times of the year; and this was one of them, as is clear by its being called a feast of the Lord; and therefore cannot design any civil festival or fair kept for trade and commerce.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
But relenting at having laid so hard a sentence on their brothers, they moderated their severity so as to give them in marriage those maidens that had lost their parents, whose fathers had been slain for their sins, or to give them the means of finding a wife by a raid. Because of the villainy of so foul a deed, they who had violated another's marriage rights were shown to be unworthy to ask for marriage. But for fear that one tribe might perish from the people, they connived at the deceit.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Duties of the Clergy 3.19.115, 397Patristic
- 1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 18:61 voice
When David returned after striking down the Philistine, etc., the Lord, having returned after defeating the ancient enemy through His suffering and appearing in the glory of resurrection to His chosen ones, the glory of this triumph having been spread throughout Judea, the lowly souls, …
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
- 1 Samuel 21:11
But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands’?”
Commentary on 1 Samuel 21:112 voices
Every kind of honour and happiness was bestowed upon you, and then was fulfilled that which is written, "My beloved ate and drank, and was enlarged and became fat, and kicked." [Deuteronomy 32:15] Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the honoured, those of no reputation against such as were renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced in years.
Clement of Rome· Clement's First Letter to the Corinthians, Chapters 3-4, 99Patristic
Is this not David, the king of the land? etc. The scribes and Pharisees of the Jewish kingdom, serving wickedness badly, said: "See that we gain nothing; behold, the whole world has gone after him" (John XII), to whom they sang in choirs, saying: "Hosanna, …
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
- 1 Samuel 30:16
So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
Commentary on 1 Samuel 30:162 voices
When he had led him, behold, they reclined, etc. Heretics recline on the face of the earth, eating and drinking; whether they read the obscure or the clear Scriptures (for this is the difference between eating and drinking), they always seek not the heavenly things …
Bede· Commentary on Samuel, 735Patristic
The poor and the feeble, the blind and the lame, are called and come because the weak and the despised in this world are often quicker to hear the voice of God, as in this world they have nothing to delight them.The Egyptian servant of the Amalekites is a good example of this. When the Amalekites were plundering and moving about, he was left behind on the road sick and fainting from hunger and thirst.
Gregory the Dialogist· Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 36, 604Patristic
- 2 Samuel 6:14–16
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
Commentary on 2 Samuel 6:14–161 voice
But because secret pride of heart is reproved by this, which Eliu says, "All who seem to themselves to be wise will not dare to contemplate Him"; it seems good to observe what great gifts of virtues David had obtained, and in all these with how firm a humility he maintained himself.
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book 27.77, 604Patristic
- Job 21:11
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
Commentary on Job 21:112 voices
"And their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp." Our children take up the psaltery and the harp, praising and glorifying God. But "their [the heretics'] children," who are foolish in themselves, also "play taking up the psaltery and the harp." Every time they usurp the words of the Old Testament, they play and mock the oracles of the Law and the Prophets. By taking up the harmonies that were once the psaltery of the law and the prophetic harp, they play with them.
Origen of Alexandria· FRAGMENTS ON JOB 15.25, 253Patristic
They send forth their little ones like a flock,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 30:11
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
Commentary on Psalms 30:111 voice
The joy of God is not found in just any soul but, if someone has mourned much and deeply his own sin with loud lamentations and continual weepings, as if he were bewailing his own death, the mourning of such a one is turned into joy.… The mourning garment, which he put on when bewailing his sin, is torn, and the tunic of joy is placed around him and the cloak of salvation, those bright wedding garments, with which if one is adorned, he will not be cast out from the bridal chamber.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES on the PSALMS 14:7 (PS 30), 379Patristic
- Psalms 149:3
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
Commentary on Psalms 149:31 voice
Let them praise his name in the choir. Wherever there is a choir, there diverse voices are gathered together into one song. For just as diverse strings produce the one sound of a song, so also diverse voices — that is, when they have been gathered together at once — make the choir of the Lord. Let them praise his name in the choir: where there is dissension, where there is envy, there is no choir. Let them praise his name in the choir: let them sing praise to him on the timbrel and the psaltery.
Jerome· Homily 59, on Psalm 149, 420Patristic
- Psalms 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
Commentary on Psalms 150:41 voice
The timbrel represents the death of fleshly desire because of honesty itself. Dancing is the agreement of reasonable spirits all saying the same thing and in which there are no divisions. The stringed instruments suggest the unison of the voices of moral excellence and the unity of the organ which is the church of God resting on reflective and active minds.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 150:3-5, 253Patristic
- Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 3:41 voice
"A time for weeping and a time for laughter." Now is the time for weeping and in the future it will be the time for laughter: for "the blessed weep, since they themselves will laugh." [Luc. 6, 21.] "A time for bewailing and a time for dancing. "For this reason they are seized in the Gospel, those to whom God says " I have lamented for you and you have not moaned; I sang and you did not dance." [Luc.
Jerome· Commentary on Ecclesiastes, 420Patristic
- Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:41 voice
(Verse 4) And again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel: you shall again be adorned (or crowned) with your timbrels, and you shall go forth in the dance of them that make merry. And he says again: I will build you up, and you will be built up, O virgin Israel. Let us understand this specifically in the Church. For those who long for golden and jeweled Jerusalem are mad, consecrating their greed for the mystery of the city of the Lord.
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic
- Jeremiah 31:13
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
Commentary on Jeremiah 31:131 voice
(Verse 13) Then the virgin shall rejoice in the dance (or the virgins) and the young men and the old men together, and I will turn their mourning into joy, and I will comfort them and make them rejoice from their sorrow. Then the virgin will rejoice in the choir, of whom the Apostle writes: For I have betrothed you to one husband to present a chaste virgin to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2).
Jerome· Commentary on Jeremiah, 420Patristic