The women who were playing the music sang,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Saul has struck down his thousands,p> <p class="poetry">but David his tens of thousands!&#8221;p>

All Israel heard this message,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel is repulsive<n id="2" /> to the Philistines!&#8221; So the people were summoned to join<n id="3" /> Saul at Gilgal.p>

In this initial skirmish Jonathan and his armor bearer struck down about twenty men in an area that measured half an acre.p>

Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine will be just like one of them.<n id="1" /> For he has defied the armies of the living God!&#8221;

As for Nob, the city of the priests, he struck down with the sword men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep &#8211; all with the sword.p>

Isn&#8217;t this David, of whom they sang as they danced,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Saul has struck down his thousands,p> <p class="poetry">but David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> struck down some of the people of Beth Shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the <sc>Lordsc>; he struck down 50,070<n id="2" /> of the men. The people grieved because the <sc>Lordsc> had struck the people with a hard blow.

The servants of Achish said to him, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this David, the king of the land? Isn&#8217;t he the one that they sing about when they dance, saying,p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Saul struck down his thousands,p> <p class="poetry">But David his tens of thousands&#8217;?&#8221;p>