1 Samuel 18:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ 8 And Saul saw, and understood that the Lord was with David. And Michol the daughter of Saul loved him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Saul's servants told those words to David. David said, Does it seem to you a light thing to be a king's son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?

American Standard Version (1901)

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 the king’s son-in-law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

Common English Bible

²³ Saul’s servants whispered these things in David’s ear. But David said, “Do you think it’s a simple matter to become the king’s son-in-law? I don’t! I’m poor and insignificant.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And the servants of Saul spoke all these words to the ears of David. And David said: "Does it seem a small matter to you, to be the son-in-law of the king? I am but a poor and unimportant man."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ears of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king's son-in-law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.

1 Samuel 18:23 Cross References

Genesis 29:20

1 And he said to Laban: Give me my wife; for now the time is fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

Genesis 34:12

3 The sons of Jacob answered Sichem and his father deceitfully, being enraged at the deflowering of their sister:

Psalm 119:141

48 My eyes to thee have prevented the morning: that I might meditate on thy words.

Proverbs 14:20

7 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.

Proverbs 29:5

2 A prince that gladly heareth lying words, hath all his servants wicked.

1 John 3:1

0 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just, is not of God, nor he that loveth not his brother.

1 Samuel 18:18

3 And the servants of Saul spoke all these words in the ears of David. And David said: Doth it seem to you a small matter to be the king's son in law? But I am a poor man, and of small ability.

1 Samuel 18:22

7 And after a few days David rose up, and went with the men that were under him, and he slew of the Philistines two hundred men, and brought their foreskins and numbered them out to the king, that he might be his son in law. Saul therefore gave him Michol his daughter to wife.

1 Samuel 18:24

9 And Saul began to fear David more: and Saul became David's enemy continually.

1 Samuel 9:21

6 And when they were risen in the morning, and it began now to be light, Samuel called Saul on the top of the house, saying: Arise, that I may let thee go. And Saul arose: and they went out both of them, to wit, he and Samuel.