And the men of Israel said
To one another:
have ye seen this man that is come up?
taken notice of him, and observed him?
surely to defy Israel is he come up;
to challenge them to fight with him, and upbraid them with cowardice that they did not:
and it shall be [that] the man who killeth him;
this, and what follows, they said to encourage any person to engage with him, though none of them cared to encounter him themselves:
the king will enrich him with great riches;
give him a large gratuity, make a present of a great sum of money to him:
and will give him his daughter to be his wife,
in like manner as Caleb promised to give his daughter in marriage to the person that should take Kirjathsepher, ( Judges 1:12 ) ;
and make his father's house free in Israel;
from all tributes, taxes, levies, impositions, king's service, and duty; or, as the Targum,
``make his father's house freemen, nobles;''raise it to the rank of nobility.