1 Samuel 18:7
New International Version
As they danced, they sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

New Living Translation
This was their song: “Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands!”

English Standard Version
And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

Berean Standard Bible
And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

King James Bible
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

New King James Version
So the women sang as they danced, and said: “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

New American Standard Bible
The women sang as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

NASB 1995
The women sang as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

NASB 1977
And the women sang as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

Legacy Standard Bible
And the women sang as they were merry and said, “Saul has struck his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

Amplified Bible
The women sang as they played and danced, saying, “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”

Christian Standard Bible
As they danced, the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
As they celebrated, the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.

American Standard Version
And the women sang one to another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the women were responding and laughing and saying: “Shaul killed thousands and David ten thousands!”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the women began the strain, and said, Saul has smitten his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

Contemporary English Version
They sang: Saul has killed a thousand enemies; David has killed ten thousand!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the women sung as they played, and they said: Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

English Revised Version
And the women sang one to another in their play, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The women who were celebrating sang, "Saul has defeated thousands but David tens of thousands!"

Good News Translation
In their celebration the women sang, "Saul has killed thousands, but David tens of thousands."

International Standard Version
As the women sang and played, they said, "Saul has struck down his thousands but David his ten thousands."

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the women sang one to another in their play, and said: Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.

Literal Standard Version
and the women answer—those playing, and say, “Saul has struck among his thousands, | And David among his myriads.”

Majority Standard Bible
And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

New American Bible
The women played and sang: “Saul has slain his thousands, David his tens of thousands.”

NET Bible
The women who were playing the music sang, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands!"

New Revised Standard Version
And the women sang to one another as they made merry, “Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

New Heart English Bible
The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands."

Webster's Bible Translation
And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

World English Bible
The women sang to one another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

Young's Literal Translation
and the women answer -- those playing, and say, 'Saul hath smitten among his thousands, And David among his myriads.'

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Saul Envies David
6As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments. 7And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.” 8And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”…

Cross References
Exodus 15:21
And Miriam sang back to them: "Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; the horse and rider He has thrown into the sea."

1 Samuel 21:11
But the servants of Achish said to him, "Is this not David, the king of the land? Did they not sing about him in their dances, saying: 'Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?"

1 Samuel 29:5
Is this not the David about whom they sing in their dances: 'Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands'?"

2 Samuel 6:5
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

2 Samuel 18:3
But the people pleaded, "You must not go out! For if we have to flee, they will pay no attention to us. Even if half of us die, they will not care; but you are worth ten thousand of us. It is better for now if you support us from the city."


Treasury of Scripture

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.

answered

Exodus 15:21
And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

Psalm 24:7,8
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in…

Saul

1 Samuel 21:11
And the servants of Achish said unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

1 Samuel 29:5
Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

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1 Samuel 18
1. Jonathan befriends David
5. Saul envies his praise
10. seeks to kill him in his fury
12. fears him for his good success
17. offers him his daughters for snare
23. David persuaded to be the king's son-in-law,
25. gives two hundred foreskins of the Philistines for Michal's dowry
28. Saul's hatred and David's glory increase














(7) Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.--These words, which sing of the early glory of David in battle, are quoted again in 1Samuel 29:5. They were, no doubt, the favourite refrain of an old national or folk-song.

Verse 7. - The women answered. I.e. they sang alternately. It was this alternate singing which led to the psalms being composed in parallel sentences, and not in metre; and we from the temple service have inherited our method of chanting antiphonally. As they played. The word is ambiguous, and to an English reader would suggest the idea of the women playing upon the musical instruments. It usually refers to merriment, and so in Zechariah 8:5 it is used of the children playing in the streets, but especially it refers to dancing. Thus in 2 Samuel 2:14 it is used of a war dance ending in a real conflict; and again (2 Samuel 6:5, 21; 1 Chronicles 13:8; 1 Chronicles 15:29) of David dancing to instruments of music, before the ark. Michal probably would not have despised David for playing an instrument of music during a religious ceremony; it was the posturing of the dance which seemed to her beneath the dignity of a king. So these women danced in alternate choruses to the beating of their tambourines and triangles. In Judges 16:25, where, however, it is in a different conjugation, the verb is translated "to make sport." Really Samson was compelled to dance Israel's national war dance before the Philistines.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And as the women danced,
הַֽמְשַׂחֲק֖וֹת (ham·śa·ḥă·qō·wṯ)
Article | Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 7832: To laugh, to play

they sang out:
וַֽתַּעֲנֶ֛ינָה (wat·ta·‘ă·ne·nāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 6030: To answer, respond

“Saul
שָׁאוּל֙ (šā·’ūl)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 7586: Saul -- first king of Israel, also an Edomite and two Israelites

has slain
הִכָּ֤ה (hik·kāh)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5221: To strike

[his] thousands,
בַּאֲלָפָ֔יו (ba·’ă·lā·p̄āw)
Preposition-b | Number - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 505: A thousand

and David
וְדָוִ֖ד (wə·ḏā·wiḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

his tens of thousands.”
בְּרִבְבֹתָֽיו׃ (bə·riḇ·ḇō·ṯāw)
Preposition-b | Number - feminine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7233: Multitude, myriad, ten thousand


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