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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)

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Is this not the David for whom they sing during their dances,

‘Saul has slain his thousands,
    David his tens of thousands’?”(A)

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Though a thousand fall at your side,
    ten thousand at your right hand,
    near you it shall not come.

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Therefore the women sang his praises
    and honored him for “the tens of thousands.”
When he received the royal crown, he battled(A)
    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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