1 Samuel 18:8
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What does 1 Samuel 18:8 mean?
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased
him
Partly because they called him plain Saul, and not King Saul; did
not give him his royal title, which might serve to strengthen his
suspicion, after suggested; and chiefly because they attributed a
greater number of slain to David than to him, as follows:
and he said, they have ascribed unto David ten thousands,
and to me
they ascribed [but] thousands;
and so had given more honour to an inferior officer than to the
commander-in-chief, more to a subject than to a sovereign:
and [what can] he have more but the kingdom?
there is nothing left out of their song, and nothing remains to
be given him but that; some think that Saul knew, by the prudent
behaviour of David, and the favour he was in with God and men,
and by these commendations of the women, that the kingdom would
be his; and that the words of Samuel were true, and would be
confirmed, that the kingdom would be rent from him, and given to
his neighbour better than he. This clause, with ( 1
Samuel 18:9-11 ) , is left out of the Greek version,
according to the Vatican copy.
