who danced for joy in the bible?
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Alot have.  But maybe you are refering to David, who danced when the Arc of God was brought back to Jeruselem.
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"Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous deeds. His right hand and arm have got him the victory."\n- Psalm 98.1
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No - quite the contrary!  Dancing is considered to be a joyous activity, and many synagogues teach Israeli-style dancing to those of us who weren't raised with it.  Dancing at weddings and other celebrations is very common.
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Zephaniah 3:17 \n\nThe LORD your God is with you, \n       He is mighty to save. \n       He will take great delight in you, \n       He will quiet you with his love, \n       He will rejoice over you with singing." \n\nGod sings over us! I imagine if He sings over us, He probably laughs with joy too!
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the closest thing is the Shechinah, which is the feminine aspect of G-d and refers to the presence of G-d. its not a separate part of G-d however. similar to christianity its often connected with inspiration, they probably derived the idea of the holy spirit from the Shechinah. \n\n"The Talmud reports that the Shekhinah is what caused prophets to prophesy and King David to compose his Psalms The Shechinah manifests itself as a form of joy, connected with prophecy and creativity: Talmud Pesachim 117a) The Talmud also reports that "The Shechinah does not rest amidst laziness, nor amidst laughter, nor amidst lightheadedness, nor amidst idle conversation. Rather, it is amidst the joy associated with a mitzvah that the Shechinah comes to rest upon people, as it is said: 'And now, bring me for a musician, and it happened that when the music played, God's hand rested upon him' [Elisha] [2 Kings 3:15]"
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that's for me to know & you to wonder....however, answer to question 1:\n\n\n2 Chronicles 21:11  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.\n\nIsaiah 23:17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.\n\nEzekiel 16:26  Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.\n\nEzekiel 16:29  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.\n\nMatthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.\n\nJohn 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.\n\nActs 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.\n\nActs 15:29  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.\n\nActs 21:25  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.\n\nRomans 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,\n\n1 Corinthians 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n1 Corinthians 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.\n\n2 Corinthians 12:21  And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.\n\nGalatians 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\n\nEphesians 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;\n\nColossians 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:\n\nJude 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.\n\nRevelation 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou
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I would have to say Enoch.\n\nGenesis 5:24   And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. \n\nHebrews 11:5   By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
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Read Song of Solomon in the Old Testiment
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the Lord Jesus said" the righteous shall rejoice and wash his feet in the blood of the wicked"
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"the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication." (Rev. 17:1-2 KJV)\nSounds like a party to me!
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Revelation 1:13-15\n\n13  and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, Dan. 7.13 clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.  \n \n14  His head and his hairs were white like wool,  as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;\n \n15  and his feet like unto fine brass,  as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters
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Happy are those that dash babies heads in the stone\n\nThe "wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. 3:36\n\n"The Lord knoweth them that are his." This verse was used by the Catholic Church during the inquisition to justify killing those suspected of heresy. (Kill them all, for `the Lord knows them that are His'." ) 2:19\nf a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death;  their blood shall be upon them.--Lev.20:13\n    While the Israelites were camped at Acacia, some of the men defiled themselves by sleeping with the local Moabite women.  These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, and soon the Israelites were feasting with them and worshiping the gods of Moab.  Before long Israel was joining in the worship of Baal of Peor, causing the LORD's anger to blaze against his people.  The LORD issued the following command to Moses: "Seize all the ringleaders and execute them before the LORD in broad daylight, so his fierce anger will turn away from the people of Israel."  So Moses ordered Israel's judges to execute everyone who had joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.  Just then one of the Israelite men brought a Midianite woman into the camp, right before the eyes of Moses and all the people, as they were weeping at the entrance of the Tabernacle.  When Phinehas son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron the priest saw this, he jumped up and left the assembly.  Then he took a spear and rushed after the man into his tent. Phinehas thrust the spear all the way through the man's body and into the woman's stomach.  So the plague against the Israelites was stopped, but not before 24,000 people had died.  (Numbers 25:1-9 NLT)\n\n\n    Slaves, obey your earthly masters with deep respect and fear.  Serve them sincerely as you would serve Christ.  (Ephesians 6:5 NLT)\n\n \n\n    Christians who are slaves should give their masters full respect so that the name of God and his teaching will not be shamed.  If your master is a Christian, that is no excuse for being disrespectful.  You should work all the harder because you are helping another believer by your efforts.  Teach these truths, Timothy, and encourage everyone to obey them.  (1 Timothy 6:1-2 NLT)
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Jesus.\n\nHeb 12:2\nLooking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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I think he does!  We were, after all, made in His image.  He talks about joy and being merry (Proverbs 17:22).\nThe Lord has done (and still does) many wonderful things and He does them to make us happy and to give us joy and to make us merry.  He takes joy in it!  What accompanies joy and happiness?  Laughter!\nLuke 15:32 (Whole Chapter) \nIt was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.\nPsalm 2:4 (Whole Chapter) \nHe that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision\nEcclesiastes 3:4 (Whole Chapter) \nA time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;\nLuke 6:21 (Whole Chapter) \nBlessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.\n\n\n\nI think He even has a tendency to be sarcastic at times!  Just look at how he talked to the Israelites when they made Him angry.  Look at the way that Jesus spoke to some of the scribes and pharisees!\n Elijah was very sarcastic with the people when they wanted to prove that their god/idol was real (little g here).  And God backed him up by proving himself to the people!\n\n1 Kings 18\n 26And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. \n\n   27And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked. \n\n   28And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. \n\n   29And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. \n\n   30And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down. \n\n   31And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name: \n\n   32And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed. \n\n   33And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood. \n\n   34And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time. \n\n   35And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water. \n\n   36And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. \n\n   37Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. \n\n   38Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench. \n\n   39And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God. \n\nLook at God!\nBasically what I am saying is this;\nGod told us to rejoice, be glad, have joy,be merry, etc...\nand He told us to strive to be like Him!\nI think that all of that implies that He is a happy, joyous, merry God (unless He's angry!).\nHe has emotions- I think He has a sense of humor as well.
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john the baptist. he openly re-enacted the exodus and baptised those who would follow. that was a pretty bold move that showed not only his faith, but also successfully struck a political nerve. he demonstrated that he could get mass demonstrations that there were ppl that werent afraid to openly follow someone besides those in political power at the time.
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There's a book and software called "Who's Who in the Bible".  You can also check on amazon.com.  I put both links here for you.
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Did not Jesus attend a wedding with music, dancing, and wine.  Did not Paul say that music and singing honored God.  And check out the Proverbs.  Talk about God loving people who wrote music and prose to honor their God!\n\nNo music is not a sin.  Religion teaching that music is a sin is the sin.