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Is this not David, of whom they sing to one another in dances,

‘Saul has killed his thousands
    and David his ten thousands’?”(A)

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11 The servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances,

‘Saul has killed his thousands
    and David his ten thousands’?”(A)

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As they were coming home, when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.[a](A) And the women sang to one another as they made merry,

“Saul has killed his thousands
    and David his ten thousands.”(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.6 Or triangles or three-stringed instruments

14 Whoever blesses a neighbor with a loud voice,
    rising early in the morning,
    will be counted as cursing.

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