Of whom they sang. — The folk-songs, which had originally excited Saul’s jealousy of the young hero David, were current among the Philistines, who seem to have been a musical people. David’s having apparently learned and practised Philistine music when in Gath, which he subsequently introduced into Jerusalem, has been already noticed.
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1 Samuel 29:5
5 Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?