OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 18:6

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As they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, 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.

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Verse 6. Philistine. Some explain this of some fresh achievement against that nation, (Malvenda. Worthington.) but without reason.—Dancing. Hebrew also playing on the flute, or on some such instrument of music. Calmet.—So Mary sung after the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea. Exodus 15:20. 2 Kennicott. 1:20. Judges 11:34.

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