OLD TESTAMENT

1 Samuel 21:11

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The servants of Achish said to him, “Isn’t this David the king of the land? Didn’t they sing to one another about him in dances, saying, ‘Saul has slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”

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Verse 11. Land, equal to a king in glory. Menochius.—Perhaps they had heard of the rejection of Saul, and reflected that their own country belonged to him, according to the terms proposed by Goliath. Calmet.

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