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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’?”

1 Samuel 21:11 · WEB

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ગુજરાતી1 શમુએલ ૨૧:૧૧
આખીશના ચાકરોએ તેને કહ્યું, “શું આ તે દેશનો રાજા દાઉદ નથી? શું તેઓએ નાચતાં નાચતાં એકબીજા સામે આ પ્રમાણે ગાયું ન હતું કે, ‘શાઉલે પોતાના હજાર અને દાઉદે પોતાના દસ હજાર માર્યા છે?”
हिन्दी1 शमूएल २१:११
और आकीश के कर्मचारियों ने आकीश से कहा, “क्या वह उस देश का राजा दाऊद नहीं है? क्या लोगों ने उसी के विषय नाचते-नाचते एक दूसरे के साथ यह गाना न गया था, ‘शाऊल ने हजारों को, और दाऊद ने लाखों को मारा है?’”

In context

9The priest said, “Behold, the sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you would like to take that, take it, for there is no other except that here.” David said, “There is none like that. Give it to me.”

10David arose and fled that day for fear of Saul, and went to Achish the king of Gath.

11The 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’?”

12David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

13He changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

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