Verse 23
1 Samuel 18:23
King James Version
23
And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you
a light
thing to be a king’s son in law, seeing that I
am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַֽ/יְדַבְּר֞וּ עַבְדֵ֤י שָׁאוּל֙ בְּ/אָזְנֵ֣י דָוִ֔ד אֶת הַ/דְּבָרִ֖ים הָ/אֵ֑לֶּה וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר דָּוִ֗ד הַֽ/נְקַלָּ֤ה בְ/עֵֽינֵי/כֶם֙ הִתְחַתֵּ֣ן בַּ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ וְ/אָנֹכִ֖י אִֽישׁ רָ֥שׁ וְ/נִקְלֶֽה
English Translation
And the servants of Saul spoke these words to David, and David said, "Is it a trivial thing in your eyes to marry the king, while I am a poor man and insignificant?"
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Chapter 18 Context
1
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was kn...
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2
And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father’s house.
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3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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4
And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that
was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments,...
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5
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him,
and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over th...
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6
And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that...
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7
And the women answered
one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and Davi...
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8
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David t...
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9
And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
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10
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the evil spirit from God (Elohim) came upon Saul, and he pro...
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11
And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall
with it. And David avoid...
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12
And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.
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13
Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and c...
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14
And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD
was with him.
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15
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
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16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
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17
And Saul said to David, Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou v...
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18
And David said unto Saul, Who
am I? and what
is
my life,
or my father’s family in Israel, that I sh...
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19
But it came to pass at the time when Merab Saul’s daughter should have been given to David, that she...
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20
And Michal Saul’s daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
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21
And Saul said, I will give him her, that she may be a snare to him, and that the hand of the Philist...
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22
And Saul commanded his servants,
saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath...
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23
And Saul’s servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you
a ligh...
24
And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner spake David.
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25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins...
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26
And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son in law: and...
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27
Wherefore David arose and went, he and his men, and slew of the Philistines two hundred men; and Dav...
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28
And Saul saw and knew that the LORD
was with David, and
that Michal Saul’s daughter loved him.
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29
And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David’s enemy continually.
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30
Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth,
that Dav...
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