1 Samuel 18:8 meaning and explanation
And 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?”
1 Samuel 18:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Saul has just heard the women of Israel sing that he has slain his thousands but David his tens of thousands. The narrator lets us inside his mind: the song is not a report but a comparison, and Saul hears in it the crowd's shifting loyalty.
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