1 Samuel 21:12
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12 But the servants of Achish said to him, “Is this not David, the king of the land? Is it not for him that during their dances they sing out,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
David his tens of thousands’?”(A)
1 Samuel 29:5
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5 Is this not the David for whom they sing during their dances,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
David his tens of thousands’?”(A)
Psalm 91:7
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7 Though a thousand fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
near you it shall not come.
Ben Sira 47:6-7
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6 Therefore the women sang his praises
and honored him for “the tens of thousands.”
When he received the royal crown, he battled(A)
7 and subdued the enemy on every side.
He campaigned against the hostile Philistines
and shattered their power till our own day.(B)
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