Of whom they sang. —The folk-songs, which had originally excited Saul’s jealousy of the young hero David, were current among the P…

[Is] not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances Long ago:

saying, Saul slew his thousa…

David waited with a secret hope that the Lord would help him out of his difficulty. But he seems to have been influenced too much by the fear of ma…