Psalms 149:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

Psalms 149:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 31:13
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.
Exodus 15:20
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 81:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
2 Samuel 6:14
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
2 Samuel 6:16
And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have here, I. The calls given to God’s Israel to praise. All his works were, in the foregoing psalm, excited to praise him; but here his saints in a particular manner are required to bless him. Observe then, 1. Who are called upon to praise God. Israel in general, the body of the church (Ps. 149:2), the children of Zion particularly, the inhabitants of that holy hill, who are nearer to God than…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. in the dance--(Psa 30:11). The dance is connected with other terms, expressive of the great joy of the occasion. The word may be rendered “lute,” to which the other instruments are joined. sing praises--or, sing and play.