By: Rev. Lynwood F. Mundy
1 Samuel 18:5-9
So David went out wherever Saul sent him and (Or prospered) behaved wisely. And Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people and in the sight of Saul’s servants.
6 Now it had happened as they were coming home when David was returning from the slaughter of the (Philistines) Philistine, that (Ex. 15:20, 21; Judg. 11:34; Ps. 68:25; 149:3) the women had come out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with musical instruments.
7 So the women (Ex. 15:21) sang as they danced, and said:
(1 Sam. 21:11; 29:5) “Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands.”
8 Then Saul was furious, and the saying (Eccl. 4:4) displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me, they have ascribed only thousands. Now, what more can he have but (1 Sam. 15:28) the kingdom?”
9 So Saul (Viewed with suspicion) eyed David from that day forward.
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982. Print.
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