1 Samuel 18:18

New English Translation

David said to Saul, “Who am I? Who are my relatives or the clan of my father in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:18

King David went in, sat before the Lord, and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you should have brought me to this point?

1 Kings 4:15

Ahimaaz was in charge of Naphtali. (He married Solomon’s daughter Basemath.)

Exodus 3:11

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of a person is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Jeremiah 1:6

I answered, “Oh, Lord God, I really do not know how to speak well enough for that, for I am too young.”

Ruth 2:10

Ruth knelt before him with her forehead to the ground and said to him, “Why are you so kind and so attentive to me, even though I am a foreigner?”

1 Samuel 18:23

So Saul’s servants spoke these words privately to David. David replied, “Is becoming the king’s son-in-law something insignificant to you? I’m just a poor and lightly-esteemed man!”

1 Samuel 9:21

Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of Israel’s tribes, and is not my family clan the smallest of all the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me in this way?”