1 Samuel 29:5

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 21:11 : 11 The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"
  • Prov 27:14 : 14 He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be taken as a curse by him.
  • 1 Sam 18:6-7 : 6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music. 7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.

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  • 1 Sam 21:10-11
    2 verses
    91%

    10David arose, and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

    11The servants of Achish said to him, "Isn't this David the king of the land? Didn't they sing one to another about him in dances, saying, 'Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands?'"

  • 1 Sam 18:5-8
    4 verses
    85%

    5David went out wherever Saul sent him, [and] behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and it was good in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

    6It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

    7The women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.

    8Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?

  • 1 Sam 29:2-4
    3 verses
    76%

    2The lords of the Philistines passed on by hundreds, and by thousands; and David and his men passed on in the rearward with Achish.

    3Then said the princes of the Philistines, What [do] these Hebrews [here]? Achish said to the princes of the Philistines, Isn't this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell away [to me] to this day?

    4But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?

  • 1 Sam 24:9
    75%

    9David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?

  • 1 Sam 26:17
    74%

    17Saul knew David's voice, and said, Is this your voice, my son David? David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

  • 1 Sam 29:6
    74%

    6Then Achish called David, and said to him, As Yahweh lives, you have been upright, and your going out and your coming in with me in the host is good in my sight; for I have not found evil in you since the day of your coming to me to this day: nevertheless the lords don't favor you.

  • 1 Sam 18:30
    74%

    30Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it happened, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
    73%

    5for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel: you saw it, and did rejoice; why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?

  • 1 Sam 18:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24The servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spoke David.

    25Saul said, Thus shall you tell David, The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

  • 1 Sam 17:31-33
    3 verses
    73%

    31When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

    32David said to Saul, Let no man's heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

    33Saul said to David, You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

  • 2 Sam 22:1
    73%

    1David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

  • 1 Sam 19:8
    73%

    8There was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and killed them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

  • 1 Sam 18:13
    73%

    13Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

  • 1 Sam 29:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8David said to Achish, But what have I done? and what have you found in your servant so long as I have been before you to this day, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?

    9Achish answered David, I know that you are good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.

  • 2 Sam 1:14-17
    4 verses
    72%

    14David said to him, How were you not afraid to put forth your hand to destroy Yahweh's anointed?

    15David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall on him. He struck him, so that he died.

    16David said to him, Your blood be on your head; for your mouth has testified against you, saying, I have slain Yahweh's anointed.

    17David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

  • 1 Sam 17:29
    72%

    29David said, What have I now done? Is there not a cause?

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57As David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • 1 Sam 26:25
    71%

    25Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do mightily, and shall surely prevail. So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.

  • 1 Sam 18:16
    71%

    16But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.

  • 1 Sam 17:25-26
    2 verses
    71%

    25The men of Israel said, Have you seen this man who is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

    26David spoke to the men who stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man who kills this Philistine, and takes away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

  • 1 Sam 30:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15David said to him, Will you bring me down to this troop? He said, Swear to me by God, that you will neither kill me, nor deliver me up into the hands of my master, and I will bring you down to this troop.

    16When he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

  • 1 Sam 28:1
    71%

    1It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their hosts together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, Know you assuredly, that you shall go out with me in the host, you and your men.

  • 2 Sam 18:7
    71%

    7The people of Israel were struck there before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter there that day of twenty thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 5:2
    71%

    2In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel: and Yahweh said to you, You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.

  • 1 Sam 16:18
    71%

    18Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.

  • 1 Sam 22:7
    71%

    7Saul said to his servants who stood about him, Hear now, you Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give everyone of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds,

  • 1 Sam 27:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul will despair of me, to seek me any more in all the borders of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

    2David arose, and passed over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.

  • 1 Sam 30:23
    70%

    23Then said David, You shall not do so, my brothers, with that which Yahweh has given to us, who has preserved us, and delivered the troop that came against us into our hand.

  • 1 Sam 27:11
    70%

    11David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, Lest they should tell of us, saying, So did David, and so has been his manner all the while he has lived in the country of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 20:8
    70%

    8These were born to the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.

  • 1 Chr 14:8
    70%

    8When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.

  • 1 Sam 17:37
    70%

    37David said, Yahweh who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. Saul said to David, Go, and Yahweh shall be with you.

  • 2 Sam 8:13
    70%

    13David got him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

  • 2 Sam 6:21
    70%

    21David said to Michal, [It was] before Yahweh, who chose me above your father, and above all his house, to appoint me prince over the people of Yahweh, over Israel: therefore will I play before Yahweh.