1 Samuel 18:23

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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?

Cross References

Genesis 29:20

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

Genesis 34:12

Ask me ever so much dowry and [marriage] gift, and I will give according to what you tell me; only give me the girl to be my wife.

Psalm 119:141

I am small (insignificant) and despised, but I do not forget Your precepts.

Proverbs 14:20

The poor is hated even by his own neighbor, but the rich has many friends.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his own feet.

1 John 3:1

SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.

1 Samuel 18:18

David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my life or my father's family in Israel, that I should be the king's son-in-law?

1 Samuel 18:22

And Saul commanded his servants to speak to David privately and say, The king delights in you, and all his servants love you; now then, become [his] son-in-law.

1 Samuel 18:24

And the servants of Saul told him what David said.

1 Samuel 9:21

And Saul said, Am I not a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? And is not my family the least of all the families of the clans of Benjamin? Why then do you speak this way to me?