1 Samuel 29:5

Is not this David, of whom they answer in choruses, saying, Saul hath smitten among his thousands, and David among his myriads?'

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

In Context

4And the heads of the Philistines are wroth against him, and the heads of the Philistines say to him, 'Send back the man, and he doth turn back unto his place whither thou hast appointed him, and doth not go down with us into battle, and is not to us for an adversary in battle; and wherewith doth this one reconcile himself unto his lord — is it not with the heads of those men?'

6And Achish calleth unto David, and saith unto him, 'Jehovah liveth, surely thou [art] upright, and good in mine eyes is thy going out, and thy coming in, with me in the camp, for I have not found in thee evil from the day of thy coming in unto me till this day; and in the eyes of the princes thou art not good;

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Cross References

1 Samuel 18:7and the women answer — those playing, and say, 'Saul hath smitten among his thousands, And David among his myriads.'

Proverbs 27:14Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

Matthew Henry on 1 Samuel 29:2-6

David with the Philistines. ( b. c. 1055.) 1 Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites pitched by a fountain which is in Jezreel. 2 And the lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands: but David and his men passed on in the rereward with Achish. 3 Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me… Read the whole commentary →

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