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NOW the women were an occasion of Saul's envy and hatred to David;
for they came to meet their victorious army with cymbals, and drums, and
all demonstrations of joy, and sang thus: The wives said, that "Saul
had slain his many thousands of the Philistines." The virgins replied,
that "David had slain his ten thousands." Now, when the king
heard them singing thus, and that he had himself the smallest share in
their commendations, and the greater number, the ten thousands, were ascribed
to the young man; and when he considered with himself that there was nothing
more wanting to David, after such a mighty applause, but the kingdom; he
began to be afraid and suspicious of David. Accordingly he removed him
from the station he was in before, for he was his armor-bearer, which,
out of fear, seemed to him much too near a station for him; and so he made
him captain over a thousand, and bestowed on him a post better indeed in
itself, but, as he thought, more for his own security; for he had a mind
to send him against the enemy, and into battles, as hoping he would be
slain in such dangerous conflicts.
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