Genesis 31:27 BSB
Old Testament
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
Exodus 30:38 BSB
Old Testament
Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
Leviticus 9:24 BSB
Old Testament
Fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed the burnt offering and the fat portions on the altar. And when all the people saw it, they shouted for joy and fell facedown.
Leviticus 26:34 BSB
Old Testament
Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate, while you are in the land of your enemies. At that time the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:43 BSB
Old Testament
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
Numbers 10:10 BSB
Old Testament
And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 14:31 BSB
Old Testament
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
Deuteronomy 16:15 BSB
Old Testament
For seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place He will choose, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that your joy will be complete.
Deuteronomy 20:6 BSB
Old Testament
Has any man planted a vineyard and not begun to enjoy its fruit? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 24:5 BSB
Old Testament
If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.
Deuteronomy 28:30 BSB
Old Testament
You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:47 BSB
Old Testament
Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance,
Judges 19:22 BSB
Old Testament
While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
1 Samuel 6:13 BSB
Old Testament
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 18:6 BSB
Old Testament
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 Kings 1:40 BSB
Old Testament
All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
1 Kings 8:66 BSB
Old Testament
On the fifteenth day Solomon sent the people away. So they blessed the king and went home, joyful and glad in heart for all the good things that the LORD had done for His servant David and for His people Israel.
1 Chronicles 12:40 BSB
Old Testament
And their neighbors from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali came bringing food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen—abundant supplies of flour, fig cakes and raisin cakes, wine and oil, oxen and sheep. Indeed, there was joy in Israel.
1 Chronicles 15:16 BSB
Old Testament
David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
1 Chronicles 16:27 BSB
Old Testament
Splendor and majesty are before Him; strength and joy fill His dwelling.
1 Chronicles 16:33 BSB
Old Testament
Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the LORD, for He is coming to judge the earth.
1 Chronicles 29:17 BSB
Old Testament
I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
1 Chronicles 29:22 BSB
Old Testament
That day they ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD. Then, for a second time, they designated David’s son Solomon as king, anointing him before the LORD as ruler, and Zadok as the priest.
2 Chronicles 7:10 BSB
Old Testament
On the twenty-third day of the seventh month, Solomon sent the people away to their homes, joyful and glad of heart for the good things that the LORD had done for David, for Solomon, and for His people Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:27 BSB
Old Testament
Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.