I am a jewish dancer and timbrel player. I thought I would share what I know about the timbrel & jewish dance, references about them in the bible, and the role they have in the church today. If you are interested in learning the Timbrel and would like to learn from the ministry that first brought it to the USA there is a link to Shachah Ministries International below.
SCRIPTURAL REFERANCES
Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with the tambourine and harp.(NIV)
Psalm 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance, praise him with the stringed instruments and flutes. (NKJV)
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the woman followed her, with the tambourines and dancing (NIV)
Pslam 68:24-25
They have seen your procession, O God, The procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; Among them were the maidens playing timbrels(NKJV)
Psalm 81:1-2
Sing for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob! Begin the music, strike the tambourine, play the melodious harp and lyre. (NIV)
2 Samuel 6:5
David and the whole house of Israel were celebrating with all their might before the Lord, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, sistrums and cymbals. (NIV)
Isaiah 30:32
Every stoke the lord lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as He fights them in battle with the blows of his arm. (NIV)
1 Samuel 18:6
And it happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with musical intruments. (NASB)
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, o virgin of Israel! Again you shall take up your tambourines, and go forth to the dances of the merrymakers. (NASB)
2 Samuel 6:14-15
David, wearing a linen ephod, danced before the Lord with all his might, while he and the entire house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sounds of trumpets. (NKJV)
The Role of Dance in the Church
Jewish Dance and Timbrel have two roles in the church: praise and warfare. Two examples of prasie are in Psalm 149:3 and 150:4 where it talks about praising him with the dance and tamborines.
My Favorite example of warfare is in Isaiah 30:32,"Every stoke the lord lays on them with his punishing rod will be to the music of tambourines and harps, as He fights them in battle with the blows of his arm." (NIV).
Another referance to warfareis in 2 Cronicles 20 it talkes about Jehoshaphat going to battle against the people of Moab & Ammon. The lord tells them they will not need to fight in this battle but to stand still and se the salvation of the Lord, who is with them. When they went to the place they were to have the battle and started to sing and praise the Lord...he sent ambushes into the enemy's camp and they all killed each other. Not one israelite had to lift their sword, just their voice to the lord.
In verse 22 it says, "Now when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah: they were defeated." the "praise" was probably dancing and playing of instruments, including the timbrel, since it had already mentioned singing. It just goes to show that the battle always belongs to the Lord and all we have to do is give it to him and praise his name.
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