Verse 23

And Sauls seruauntes spake those wordes in the eares of Dauid. And Dauid said: semeth it to you a light thing to be a kinges sonne in lawe? seeing that I am a poore man, and of smal reputation.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 9:21 : 21 But Saul aunswered and sayde: Am not I the sonne of a Ieminite, of the smallest tribe of Israel? and my kinred is the lest of all the kinredes of the tribe of Beniamin? Wherfore then speakest thou so to me?
• Ps 119:141 : 141 I am small and of no reputation: yet I do not forget thy comaundementes.
• Prov 14:20 : 20 The poore is hated euen of his owne neyghbours: but the riche hath many frendes.
• Prov 19:6-7 : 6 The multitude hangeth vpon great men: and euery man fauoureth hym that geueth rewardes. 7 All the brethren of the poore do hate hym, yea his owne frendes withdrawe them selues from hym: and he that geueth credence to wordes, getteth nothing.
• Eccl 9:15-16 : 15 And in the citie there was founde a poore man, but he was wyse, whiche with his wysdome deliuered the citie, yet was there no body that had any respect to such a simple man. 16 Then sayd I, wysdome is better then strength: Neuerthelesse, a simple mans wysdome is despised, and his wordes are not hearde.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, that we shoulde be called the sonnes of god: For this cause the worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not hym.