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3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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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.
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.
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
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.
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 tha…
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