1 Samuel 18:23

23 Quando falaram com Davi, ele disse: “Vocês acham que tornar-se genro do rei é fácil? Sou homem pobre e sem recursos”.

1 Samuel 18:23 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 18:23

And Saul's servants spake these words in the ears of David,
&c.] Those before related, which Saul commanded them to speak, which they delivered exactly according to their orders, with an audible voice, clearly, plainly, and distinctly, so that David might hear and understand them:

and David said, seemeth it to you [a] light [thing] to be a king's son
in law;
a small a trifling matter, an easy thing to come into, every thing requisite to it:

seeing that I [am] a poor man;
and not able to give a dowry suitable to the daughter of a king; it being usual in those times for a man to give a dowry to, and not receive a portion with a wife; and which also was the custom of the Germans, as Tacitus ^F24 relates; and this was to be according to the rank and quality of the person married, and which in this case David was not equal to:

and lightly esteemed?
not by the people of Israel and Judah, who loved him, as he was loved even by the servants of Saul, at least in profession; but by Saul himself, who had slighted him in giving his elder daughter to another man, when he had promised her to him, which was discouraging to David, and resented by him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 De Moribus German. c. 18.

1 Samuel 18:23 In-Context

21 “Eu a darei a ele, para que lhe sirva de armadilha, fazendo-o cair nas mãos dos filisteus”. Então Saul disse a Davi: “Hoje você tem uma segunda oportunidade de tornar-se meu genro”.

22 Então Saul ordenou aos seus conselheiros que falassem em particular com Davi, dizendo: “O rei está satisfeito com você, e todos os seus conselheiros o estimam. Torne-se, agora, seu genro”.

23 Quando falaram com Davi, ele disse: “Vocês acham que tornar-se genro do rei é fácil? Sou homem pobre e sem recursos”.

24 Quando os conselheiros de Saul lhe contaram o que Davi tinha dito,

25 Saul ordenou que dissessem a Davi: “O rei não quer outro preço pela noiva além de cem prepúcios de filisteus, para vingar-se de seus inimigos”. O plano de Saul era que Davi fosse morto pelos filisteus.