1 Samuel 18:23

Contextual Overview

¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was then afraid of David, for the Lord was with David and had turned away from Saul. ¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul. ¹² The Lord was with David but had left Saul. So Saul was afraid of David. ¹² So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. ¹² And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was afraid of David, because Yahweh was with him, and was departed from Saul. ¹²Now Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, but had departed from Saul. ¹² Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul. ¹² And Saul dredde Dauid, for the Lord was with hym, and hadde go awei fro him silf.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a light: 1 John 3:1

a poor man: 1 Samuel 9:21, Proverbs 14:20, Proverbs 19:6, Proverbs 19:7, Ecclesiastes 9:15, Ecclesiastes 9:16

and lightly: Psalms 119:141

Reciprocal: Numbers 16:9 - Seemeth it but Judges 1:12 - And Caleb Judges 6:15 - my family is poor 1 Samuel 18:18 - Who am I Psalms 131:1 - my heart

Cross-References

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree,

Genesis 18:4
let now a little water be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

Genesis 18:4
I will bring some water so all of you can wash your feet. You may rest under the tree,

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought so that you may all wash your feet and rest under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water, I pray you, be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

Genesis 18:4
Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
"Please let a little water be brought [by one of my servants] and [you may] wash your feet, and recline and rest comfortably under the tree.

Genesis 18:4
but I schal brynge a litil watir, and youre feet be waischid, and reste ye vndur the tre;

Genesis 18:4
let, I pray thee, a little water be accepted, and wash your feet, and recline under the tree;

Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, that you may wash your feet and rest yourselves under the tree.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Saul's servants spake these words in the ears of David,.... Those before related, which Saul commanded them to speak, which they delivered exactly according to their orders, with an audible voice, clearly, plainly, and distinctly, so that David might hear and understand them:

and David said, seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son in law; a small a trifling matter, an easy thing to come into, every thing requisite to it:

seeing that I [am] a poor man; and not able to give a dowry suitable to the daughter of a king; it being usual in those times for a man to give a dowry to, and not receive a portion with a wife; and which also was the custom of the Germans, as Tacitus x relates; and this was to be according to the rank and quality of the person married, and which in this case David was not equal to:

and lightly esteemed? not by the people of Israel and Judah, who loved him, as he was loved even by the servants of Saul, at least in profession; but by Saul himself, who had slighted him in giving his elder daughter to another man, when he had promised her to him, which was discouraging to David, and resented by him.

x De Moribus German. c. 18.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A poor man and lightly esteemed - Compare Psalms 119:141. Poor, and therefore unable to pay a sufficient dowry. See 1 Samuel 18:25.