1 Samuel 18:18

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And Dawiḏ said to Sha’ul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s clan in Yisra’ĕl, that I should be son-in-law to the sovereign?”

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:18

And Sovereign Dawiḏ went in and sat before יהוה and he said, “Who am I, O Master יהוה? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

1 Kings 4:15

Aḥima‛ats in Naphtali; he also took Basemath the daughter of Shelomoh as wife;

Exodus 3:11

And Mosheh said to Elohim, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Yisra’ĕl out of Mitsrayim?”

Proverbs 15:33

The fear of יהוה is the discipline of wisdom, And before esteem is humility.

Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before esteem is humility.

Jeremiah 1:6

And said I, “Ah, Master יהוה! See, I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth.”

Ruth 2:10

And she fell on her face, bowed down to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favour in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, seeing I am a foreigner?”

1 Samuel 18:23

And the servants of Sha’ul spoke those words in the hearing of Dawiḏ. And Dawiḏ said, “Does it seem to you a small matter to be a sovereign’s son-in-law, seeing I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?”

1 Samuel 9:21

And Sha’ul answered and said, “Am I not a Binyamite – of the smallest of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, and my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Binyamin? Why then do you speak like this to me?”