Quotes about Celebration
Now the people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed at the sight.
- 1 Samuel 6:13
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.
- 1 Samuel 18:6
And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”
- 1 Samuel 18:7
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.
- 1 Samuel 30:16
When Abner and twenty of his men came to David at Hebron, David held a feast for them.
- 2 Samuel 3:20
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
- 2 Samuel 6:5
When those carrying the ark of the LORD had advanced six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.
- 2 Samuel 6:13
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
- 2 Samuel 6:14
while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and the sounding of the ram’s horn.
- 2 Samuel 6:15
When David had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of Hosts.
- 2 Samuel 6:18
Then he distributed to every man and woman among the multitude of Israel a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. And all the people departed, each for his own home.
- 2 Samuel 6:19
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
- 2 Samuel 13:23