answered one another The women who "played" i.e. danced and gesticulated sang in antiphonal chorus (Exodus 15:21) the refrain of a popular song, which evidently became widely current, as it was well known even among the Philistines (1 Samuel 21:11; 1 Samuel 29:5).

David his ten thousands For the Philistine champion was a host in himself. Comp. the people's words to David: "thou art worth ten thousand of us" (2 Samuel 18:3).

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