Luke 15:25

Now the older son was working out in the fields. As he walked towards the house, he heard music and dancing.

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In The King James Version

Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.

In Context

24because this is my son who was dead, but who has returned alive; he was lost but now he's found.’ So they started celebrating.

26So he called one of the servants and asked what was going on.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 6:14Wearing a priest's ephod, David danced as hard as he could before the Lord

Psalms 126:1When the Lord brought his people back from captivity to Zion, it was as if we were dreaming!

Psalms 150:4Praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with strings and flutes!

Jeremiah 31:4I'm going to rebuild you, and it will happen. You will be rebuilt, Virgin Israel. You will pick up your tambourines again and run outside to dance with joy.

Luke 15:11Once there was a man who had two sons,” Jesus explained.

Matthew Henry on Luke 15:12-32

The Prodigal Son. 11 And he said, A certain man had two sons: 12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. 13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. 14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. 15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that… Read the whole commentary →

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