1 Samuel 18:6-8

International Standard Version

Saul’s Jealousy of David

⁶ When David returned from defeating the Philistine, as they were entering the city, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul, singing and dancing as they joyously played tambourines and lyres. ⁷ As the women sang and played, they said,

⁸ Saul was very angry and he did not like what the women sang. He told himself,^[a] “They have attributed tens of thousands to David, but to me they have attributed thousands. What else can he have but the kingdom?”