Verse 23

And Sauls seruauntes spake these wordes in the eares of Dauid. But Dauid saide: Thynke ye it but a small matter, to mary the kynges doughter? As for me, I am but a poore symple man.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 9:21 : 21 Saul answered: Am not I a sonne of Iemini, and of the smallest trybe, and my kynred the leest amonge all the kynreds of ye trybe of BenIamin? Why speakest thou so the vnto me?
  • Ps 119:141 : 141 I am small and of no reputacio, yet do not I forget thy comaudementes.
  • Prov 14:20 : 20 The poore is hated euen of his owne neghbours, but the riche hath many frendes.
  • Prov 19:6-7 : 6 The multitude hageth vpo greate men, & euery man fauoureth him that geueth rewardes. 7 As for the poore, he is hated amonge all his brethren: yee his owne frendes forsake him, & he that geueth credece vnto wordes, getteth nothinge.
  • Eccl 9:15-16 : 15 And in the cite there was founde a poore man (but he was wyse) which wt his wy?dome delyuered the cite: yet was there no body, yt had eny respecte vnto soch a symple man. 16 Then sayde I: wy?dome is better then strength. Neuertheles, a symple mans wy?dome is despysed, & his wordes are not herde.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 Beholde what loue the father hath shewed on vs, yt we shulde be called the childre of God. Therfore ye worlde knoweth you not, because it knoweth not him.